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...mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte to the icy Russian steppes, but Pushkin bridged the distance, uniting in himself these diverse strains, for as an American critic has said, "the poet was proud of his mixed blood and flaunted with equal ostentation his aristocratic and his Negro origins...
...craft side," wrote New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell, "Georgia O'Keeffe seems now to be doing the most brilliant work of her career...
Highly entertaining and occasionally hilarious, this is the first movie at the U. T. in weeks that clicks. The stale parts of the plot disappear under a thick layer of Oakieisms spiced with his fascinating drumming and pantomine by Auer. Two scenes made the critic laugh so hard that the rain shook off his hat down his neck. One is the Greek dance by the villainness on shoes whose soles Lily Pons has carefully soaped. A series of attempts by the immigration officers to find the French girl on the persons of "McLean's Wildcats" caused the second waterfall. Amid...
More sanguine than most, the New York Post's music critic, Samuel Chotzinoff, simply refused to believe Toscanini was through with the U. S. Chotzinoff for years has been a great friend of the maestro, is so devoted to him that many call him "Chotzinini." In Manhattan he is known for his pithy paragraphs, his skill as an accompanist, his desire to make music accessible to all. Recently Chotzinoff began to have long talks with David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Last month Critic Chotzinoff went on a mysterious "vacation," stopped in Milan at the house of his old friend...
...Latest edition: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Pushkin (Random House, $3.50), an anthology by various translators, bitterly attacked by Critic Max Eastman for mistranslations, general inadequacy...