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...boondoggling projects--and Chang wanted to show his intelligent disapproval of it. His spirit is to be admired but his error of judgment to be lamented. He has nothing to show for his zeal but a trunk and torso sadly plastered with red paint. Which reminds us that a critic these days is very likely to get smeared...
...CRITIC Burns Mantle has added another volume to his unique and invaluable set of contemporary plays. Since 1918, he has selected, with the aid of his newspapers colleagues, the "ten best plays produced in New York City" each year, limiting this choice of course to new plays in the English language. There is usually little quarrel with his selections. The Pulitzer Prize play is always included. Most of the other plays are outstanding popular successes or artistic triumphs which won special praise from the chosen few. Of course there is not room enough to give the complete text of each...
...northern Quebec last year, used as many natives as possible for crowd scenes and bits. First shown in Paris last winter, Maria Chapdelaine promptly won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. More noteworthy is the fact that it has been even more successful in Germany, where the critic of the Berliner Volks-Zeitimg was less enthusiastic than his colleagues when he wrote: "It is the greatest work of the French cinema and we should wish such films might be made in Germany...
...appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde Park with Father Coughlin in tow. So discreetly was this reunion between President and Priest handled that the Press did not know about it for 24 hours. Even...