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Louis Untermeyer, noted critic and poet, will speak tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the subject "Modern Poets and Modern Poetry." This lecture, to which the public is invited, is given under the auspices of the Cambridge Poetry Forum...
Should TIME's theatre critic elect to share his prize, a TIME subscription would be quite useful...
...culmination of 20 years of hate" drove Playwright Elmer Rice (Between Two Worlds, Judgment Day, Counsellor-at-Law, Street Scene) to turn a lecture at Columbia University into a lambasting of Broadway dramatic critics. After declaring that he would never write another play for Manhattan's "over-commercialized" theatre, Mr. Rice raged: "There is not a dramatic critic in New York City who knows anything about the problems of acting and directing. You can call them all ticket grabbers. That's what they are? ticket grabbers . . . jaded . . . bored . . . illiterate . . . stupid . . . animal-like . . . scum of the earth...
Next evening Critic Gilbert Gabriel of the New York American spied the disgusted playwright at a Broadway premiere. Funster Gabriel, whose cane conceals a gleaming rapier, leaped from his seat, pursued Mr. Rice up the aisle at the point of the rapier...
About a year ago Page No. 22 began to come to life as a critic of the New Deal. Since last New Year's not a Tuesday has gone by without a potshot or broadside by Editor George Horace Lorimer in the general direction of Washington. Recurrently the Post flayed the Brain Trust, the Treasury, NRA, ''made" work, experimentation, the Democratic Party, President Roosevelt. It proclaimed that the Government's "spending spree" was conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed...