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...Lode. There in 1869 Charles Michelson, now publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, was born. Tumultous Virginia City was no place to raise a family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess of Suds). Three years later the "big bonanza" broke at Virginia City. Miners took $21,000,000 of silver ore from the Comstock Lode in one year. The Mackays, Fairs, O'Briens and Floods became multimillionaires...
...following preview of "B. J. One," the current Harvard Dramatic Club production which will open this evening at Brattle Hall, was written for the Harvard Crimson by W. E. Harris '20, former member of the Boston Transcript staff, and newspaper critic...
...significance of this criticism cannot be fully appreciated without contrasting it with that of the nee-classics which preceded it. Its emphasis had been on the plots of the plays, on their mechanical form. Coleridge, building on the rebellion of a number of eighteenth century predecessors as well as on the revolutionary Germans, transferred that emphasis to character analysis and to the organic or innate form of the plays, which (again I quote Mr. Raysor) "are historically associated with the rising romantic movement, because of the romantic love of personal individuality." No more illuminating example of this method of treatment...
Peggy Bacon, a slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...
...Critic Margaret Bruening (Evening Post), who was not caricatured, found the pastels "handsome portraits which are actually flattering to the sitters." With Machiavellian cunning, Satirist . Bacon who is far from ugly caricatured herself more cruelly (see cut) than she did any of the critics...