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...TIME'S EDITORS CONSIDER THEIR CINEMA CRITIC AN ACCREDITED JUDGE OF BOOKS AS WELL? AND DOES TIME'S BOOK REVIEWER AGREE WITH HIS ASSOCIATE'S OPINION OF JOHN STEINBECK'S "GRAPES OF WRATH" AS A "SOSO BOOK" OF "PHONY PATHOS...
John Mason Brown '23, New York dramatic critic, will deliver a series of eight lectures on "Modern Masters of the Theatre" at the University starting March...
Brown, dramatic critic for the New York Evening Post and the author of many works on the theatre, has given courses on the modern theatre in the Summer School for the past three years...
More solid was The Nation as a critic of letters. Literary Editor Wendell Phillips Garrison was a stickler for scholarship and accuracy. Henry James the Elder tore into Thomas Carlyle's life of Frederick the Great; Henry James Jr. at 22 took a lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...
...Sometimes I'm Happy" by Benny Goodman and his band (Victor--recorded in 1935). Acclaimed by French jazz critic Huges Panassic as "the greatest ensemble record by a white band," this is a diso with excellent ensembles, some beautiful sax solo work by Vido Musso, piano by Jesse Stacy, and the band playing in a soft style that it was very shortly to lose for four years...