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...week the handful of peers and black-frocked bishops in the House stared bug-eyed at Lord Rothermere's chair-filled by the porcine bulk of Lord Rothermere himself. That he was there to make his maiden speech was astonishing enough. That the speech was to back up Critic Mottistone of Mottistone, was amusing. Crowning absurdity was the reason for the speech-to shout alarums against Hitlerized Germany...
...Italy," wrote Critic Give Bell last April in The London Studio, "has not produced a great painter since Canaletto" (1697-1768), but before Canaletto Italy produced enough great painters for all time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...show at the Carnegie Institute," reported Pittsburgh Critic Douglas Naylor, "is almost overloaded with nudes. There are six out of 37 canvases...
...sincere critic cannot but place this book in the second line of modern fiction. Mr. Irwin is not moved by the literary trends of the day. He will not Quixote-like, laugh the detective story out of existence. In fact, it is not quite fair to state that as the purpose of his satire, though such a purpose would not be without its enhancing qualities. As entertainment, however, either for the educated Senior who has completed his Divisional or the distracted Freshman madly seeking diversion between Finals, Mr. Irwin's bag of tricks holds forth a satisfying invitation...
...railway pension act, passed ten months ago, required railroads to pension their retiring employes. Franklin Roosevelt, who made it law, was its first critic, remarking as he signed it that it was crudely drawn. Second critics were railroads who contested it in court. Third critic was a lower court which held it unconstitutional. When five Supreme Court Justices became its final critics, few people were surprised...