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...Poet and a Critic," Dr. Carpenter, Harvard...
...Testament of a Critic" Mr. Nathan is the same devastating gentleman that has paraded himself in dramatic columns for the past quarter century. He has been accused of being a columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency...
...used the combination of song and speech which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind his strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces an accordion, harmonica and guitar), there is the same savage pity that Büchner had for his soldier. One European critic has called Wozzeck the greatest opera since Pellèas et Mèlisande. Stokowski must also be impressed, for his avidity for perfection appears to be even greater than usual. He is using his own 100-piece Philadelphia Orchestra, sets by Robert Edmond Jones and, thanks...
...Beal, dramatic critic, speaking of the loss of literary value in mechanical transmission, declared that this is one of the most disappointing results of the invention and development of musical reproduction by radio and talking picture. This loss of literary value, he believed, was due to the "utter impossibility" of interpreting one art in terms of another. "In the various arts, through the ages," he said, "many such mixtures have been attempted, always with the same result, failure...
...dead Worlds. This was the evening World-Telegram. Before noon the Telegram's telephone operators had learned to chirrup: "World-Telegram." In the combined paper were Will Johnstone's and Dennis Wortman's (Metropolitan Movies) cartoons. It was announced that Cartoonist Rollin Kirby and Book Critic Harry Hansen would be retained too. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann confirmed reports that he was going to retire. Colyumist F. P. A., who might have led a heavy following to the World-Telegram, instead "went home" to the Herald Tribune...