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...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...
Bosses to Work! Lest he seem a destructive critic, Edward of Wales proceeded to tell the flabbergasted Tycoons, last week, exactly how to sell more goods. Broaching this advice modestly enough, he confessed with a smile: "I've never tried to sell anybody anything in my life, except a few horses...
Chicago hears more and better French opera than Manhattan,* Manhattan more and better German opera. Recently a German Grand Opera Company arrived in Manhattan and advertised that it would give Wagner's Ring operas uncut, "according to the traditions of Bayreuth." Manhattan's critics were unanimously offended by the inferiority of the productions (TIME, Jan. 28) and the company left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began...
...Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein, famed art critic, with whom she is not on speaking terms...
...Hersey is to give an illustrated lecture entitled "A Walk in Dickens Land". It will be accompanied by lantern slides of the scenes of various events in Dickens' novels. And finally those who are interested in French literature can hear M. Andre Chevrillon speak (in French) on the great critic Taine...