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Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...
...three of the new members had much experience in debating. Professor Perry was coach at Princeton and, later, at Harvard. Mr. Eaton, now a prominent art and dramatic critic and author, was active in debating while he was an undergraduate in the University. Mr. Gleason, well-known Boston attorney, was likewise a debater at Harvard...
JOHN MASON BROWN, onetime moving spirit in the Harvard Dramatic Club, dramatic critic for the New York Evening Post, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Cambridge School of the Drama has written a history of the modern theatre not from the static point of view of events but as an observer of the direction of living tendencies...
Last March Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries held an embarrassed showing of some of the works of Jules Pascin. The pictures were poorly chosen, the show was poorly attended, poorly criticized. It contributed more than a little to the melancholia which made life unbearable for Pascin himself. Last week was another Pascin exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Socialites, reporters, art critics flocked to it. Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show...
...Anita, 1921 debutante; wife of Robert Littell, able, brilliant critic of the New York World...