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...Europe Werner Janssen had chances. He has conducted in Rome, Turin, Milan, Berlin, Budapest. Herbert F. Peyser, meticulous foreign critic for the New York Times, went to Finland last winter when Janssen conducted an all-Sibelius program in the composer's presence. Critic Peyser wrote the report that won Janssen his Philharmonic engagement. Said he: "Sibelius turned to me visibly shaken and stammered, 'For the first time I am hearing my work exactly as I conceived...
...press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed not at Gossip Winchell's premature revelation but at the Columbia School of Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor...
...When he published Men of Art the entire U. S. art world paid respectful attention to his caustic evaluation of painters from Giotto to Rivera (TIME, April 27, 1931). Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard automatically condemns abstractionists like Picasso or Braque whom Mr. Craven damns with glee. Most readers will find...
...anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what...
...often does Dallas see a premiere, let alone one by the Sage of Adelphi Terrace, whose U.S. representatives, the Theatre Guild, had sanctioned the performance. Nevertheless, Dallas' critical fraternity rose magnificently to the occasion. Observed Critic John Rosenfield Jr. of the Morning News...