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Last week, in Philadelphia's Carlen Galleries, Horace Pippin had his first one-man show. Writer of its catalogue note was none other than the terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. (Argyrol) Barnes, owner of the finest private collection of modern art in the U. S. As a critic, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby. He compared Pippin's work to that of the most famed U. S. primitive painter, the late John Kane. Said he: "Kane is more romantic in spirit . . . but his work is less rugged, simple, picturesque and naïve, and is inferior...
...sunny afternoon in 1926 he made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. That evening, ill-starred Kansas City Soprano Marion Talley made hers. In the storm and shuffle of publicity that attended Soprano Talley's debut, Melchior was practically overlooked. One critic described his acting as "barely more than awkward." But Melchior stayed on. Not long afterward, Soprano Talley's bubble had burst, and Manhattan operagoers began to think that Melchior was the best all-round Heldentenor they had heard since Jean de Reszke. As the years went by, and Wagnerian opera became...
...industry which many believe is still in its infancy. Ohio State, the nation's fifth largest university, has 13,231 students, is still growing. Of the biggest ten U. S. universities,- eight are State institutions. In the eyes of their severest critic, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, the upstart State universities are outstripping the great private universities, may eventually crowd them out of the picture. State universities believe that their growing preeminence is explained by a name Mr. Hutchins once scornfully called them-Service Stations...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...
...informal. While it is possible today to examine and assay the work of individual dramatists, it is as yet impossible to render any final judgments as to the ultimate meaning of their work in terms of the American drama. If Mr. Krutch has chosen to approach his subject as critic rather than as professor, he has done wisely. The formal history which will eventually be produced at some university will perhaps have the advantage of a greater temporal perspective, but its writer will be hard put to it to match the keenness of Mr. Krutch's critical judgments...