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Died. James Lauren Ford, 73, famed onetime literary critic of the old New York Herald, humorist, author; in Bayshore...
...people who came to church that afternoon was Haldane MacFall, then a London art critic, now the author of a biography of Artist Aubrey Beardsley. His book says little about Beardsley's family, his schooldays, his friends. It conveys scarcely any of the color of the period, already so remote and glittering, in which Beardsley drew his astonishing pictures for The Yellow Book. Only between the somewhat heavy lines of Author MacFall's writing can be discovered the eccentric tragedy of Beardsley's last year of life, when, while he was doing his best drawings...
...Said Critic Richard L. Stokes of the New York Evening World: "Her very comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
...this woman Critic Lewis Mumford has said: "She has beautified the sense of what it is to be a woman; she has revealed the intimacies of love's juncture with the purity and the absence of shame that lovers feel in their meeting; she has brought what was inarticulate and troubled and confused into the realm of conscious beauty, where it may be recalled and enjoyed with a new intensity; she has, in sum, found a language for experiences that are otherwise too intimate to be shared...
...remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible" and since M. Weber had no skill in the arts of self-defense. It is further...