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Alistair Cooke, an Englishman who has had a great amount of experience as director and critic, will direct the production...
...books about Brahms has succeeded in portraying him as other than a stuffy, big-bearded German who, as composers go, led an ascetic, uneventful life and by some freak of nature managed to write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a book described by Critic Lawrence Oilman as "the fairest and most balanced estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among...
...Hicks is by no means an inspired critic; but by treating his subject from a single point of view, without deviation, he builds up an imposing structure, perfectly logical, perfectly convincing--provided one accepts his major premise, that no American author can write adequately unless he interprets the American scene from the standpoint of the proletarian oppressed by a capitalist society. Throughout the book Mr. Hicks reasons from this premise, not toward it. That literature can have any other attributes which gives it a right to live he will not admit. Consequently Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather...
...editors of the Critic, having sold some subscriptions, are bravely facing the consequences. They have six (or less) issues on their minds which must be gotten off; a large job for three boys, busy enough with the worries of getting a degree. So they have sent out a call for help, asking for articles, jokes, photos, questionnaires, material for questionnaires, questions for other helpers to help...
...further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem. No, he could not bring the poem over, he had torn...