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...bottom of the critical list, surprisingly, came Gilbert Gabriel of the American. When he worked for the Sun, Critic Gabriel's name led all the rest in 1925-26 and 1926-27. Shrewdly surmising that the Hearstpaper's business department must have had a restraining hand on Critic Gabriel's column, observed Variety: "This year . . . Gabriel was obviously pitching from the dugout...
...Winning Critic Brown was born in Louisville, Ky., 31 years ago, has almost lost his accent. Graduated from Harvard in 1923. he traveled abroad for a year, came back to head the dramatic department of the University of Montana Summer School. Then he worked for Theatre Arts Monthly, then for the Post. His criticisms are noteworthy for their intelligence as well as iconoclasm. Critic Brown is hard to please. A onetime student at famed Professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop, Critic Brown has never written a play himself but has published critical works (Upstage, Modern Theatre in Revolt...
Most movie critics are women. Best movie critic of the year-that is, the one who made the most successful forecasts about box office accomplishments of first run films-was not from New York City, but from Chicago. She was "Doris Arden" of the Chicago Times (a tabloid), who went to 262 movies, guessed right 183 times, wrong 73 times, made the winning percentage of 69.8%. Last year Miss Arden happened to be two women: Eleanor Keen and Muriel Vernon whom she succeeded in October. Miss Keen has a Ph.D. from Columbia, never saw more than three films a year...
...Author- David Garnett's father Edward was a critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come...
...racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...