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...Critic Broun, rolling prodigiously forward...
...machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy...
...Shaw: "Recently I was criticised by the dramatic critic of the London Times for pronouncing "isolate' with a short 'i.' A lively controversy was the inevitable result. Last week one of my enemies quoted two lines* by James Russell Lowell: He may reign (Griswold says so) first...
Lewis Carroll, who was, in real life, Professor Dodgson, an English don who taught mathematics, one day amused some children by tossing off Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-thereby becoming immortal. And now Mr. Deems Taylor, who is in real life the redoubtable music critic of The New York World, has amused himself by translating "Lewis Carroll" into an orchestral suite. It contains the following numbers: The Garden of Live Flowers, Jabberwocky, Looking Glass Insects, The White Knight...
...Taylor is not the first critic who was also a musician. Robert Schumann, it will be remembered, was also such a combination. And, strangely enough, Schumann is best beloved by many for his charming Scenes from Childhood. Whether Mr. Taylor is really a musician who writes criticism, or a critic who writes music, will perhaps be decided only 50 years from now. What is important at the present moment is that he has produced a score that may be fittingly placed on the same shelf with MacDowell's lovely little Marionettes and John Alden Carpenter's Adventures...