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...fame to two great artists and in turn these two great artists find a small share of their immortality in two great actors. Sir Henry Irving in the last years of the nineteenth ventury played Becket before the gaping mouths of many Londoners in such a fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden walks upon the stage with thin Castillian face, sharpened...
Collision is adapted from the German by John Anderson, New York Journal theatre critic who revised The Fatal Alibi. His confreres did not fail to flay his present flimsy farce, observing that Critic Anderson would have done likewise...
...that he can make her speak from the beyond, name her slayer. The Great La Tour bets he can not. There follows a great deal of lowering and upping of stage lights. During one dark spell the Great La Tour is killed. During another, on the first night, Critic Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune disappeared. It was all right about the Great La Tour, however, because he turned out to have been a seducer of young girls...
...Manhattan, at a symposium in connection with an exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...
...Critic Mumford was followed by Henry Wright, foremost U. S. authority on housing conditions, who astonished many by saying that apartments on semi-fashionable Riverside Drive are "slums or potential slums." Reason: They admit light only to the front of the building...