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...musical taste of the Queen of Italy to be trusted? If so, Robbiani deserves to be known, for after the première of his Anna Karenina at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, she invited him into the Royal Box and complimented him effusively. A distinguished Italian critic, Federico Candida, used the following somewhat confused expressions in describing the music: "Accentuated, even excessive, passion-evident research-sacred fervor-rich harmony-harmful sonority- heavy orchestration-exuberance and defects-character and distinction. . . ." One may wonder about the esthetic fitness of entrusting so indelibly Russian a theme as Anna to an Italian...
Alexander Woollcott, dramatic critic Litt.D...
...imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...
...voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well," said the politician, after he got through, "well, how was it?" "Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic...
...strength in gold reserves, and the absence of the gold standard just at present in British international financing, are clearly recognized. In Germany, the question as to whether their new credit structure should be based on the pound or the dollar is being widely debated. Last week one philosophizing critic asked: "What would happen to America if Europe suddenly decided to abandon the gold standard entirely?" He conjectured that America was becoming alarmed because of her tremendous and mounting gold resources...