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Plenty of people-including Critic Adolf Hitler-would agree that punk is a mild word for Jacob Epstein's statues. But those people would have plenty of contrary-minded to deal with: not the least of them Sculptor Epstein himself. For 30 years this pudgy, bumptious, Manhattan-born sculptor has kept London's salons mouth-frothing. At the same time, a respectable squad of critics has admitted that he is one of the world's foremost portrait sculptors...
When the Theatre Guild and Gilbert Miller join forces to produce a play like "Twelfth Night" by an author like W. Shakespeare, and for good measure include Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans, you have an event that might make even the mildest critic turn cartwheels down the center aisle...
...everyone was so exuberant. In fact Miss Elinor Hughes of the "Boston Herald" seemed decidedly disappointed the day after the opening. Ordinarily, one just lets a critic's opinion lie like a sleeping dog, but in the case of "Twelfth Night," which is certainly the most significant Boston opening the fall, reinvestigation of the case of Hughes vs. Shakespeare is certainly in order...
Boyd's Daughter (by St. John Ervine, produced by Copley Productions). Last week the angry Ulsterman who once spent a choleric period as drama critic of the late New York World gave Manhattan a little play which is practically a complete definition of the word wholesome...
Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake...