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...latest book, Mr. George Jean Nathan indulges himself once again in his favorite past time of flaying a large and select gathering of public idols. In the very beginning he states quite definitely the basis for his critical idiosyncrasy. "To me, pleasure and my own personal happiness . . . only infrequently collaborating with that of others . . . are all that I deem worth a hoot." More in the tone of a personal philosophy rather than criticism he goes on to say that to have money in one's pockets, easily available gastronomic delicacies, and freedom of expression are all that one can reasonably...
...heading of this first chapter of the book is "Revelation," and it continues to be a self explanation of the fact that criticism is a matter of cultivation and discrimination among the more civilized aspects of life, all of which Mr. Nathan purports to do with some considerable skill...
...next chapter is devoted to "Proverbs" which are the "eternal truths of the theatre" as Mr. Nathan sees them. Here he advances the every sound idea that one reason for the weakness of present day dramatic criticism is in the weakness of the dramatists themselves. Another landing place for Mr. Nathan's frequently applied critical foot is humanism. For him, the cries of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmore More are the result of a too copiously imbibing of the sour grape. "And, as Lewis Mumford has so aptly put it, their strength, as with a Chinese Army, consists largely...
While Mr. Babbitt is occupied in Sever 11 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Sinclair Lewis is seated before a large Seidel of Schnapps. Mr. Nathan points out that the difference in these two fates obviously shows that the humanists are very much mistaken...
...Last summer only a few doctors were arrested for thus falsifying prescriptions. These arrests should have been a warning to the entire profession. As a warning they failed. So last week the hand of the law stretched out, slapped down in New York City. It caught: a rogue named Nathan Bernstein, in whose home were 1,432 prescriptions signed by 150 different physicians; a racketeer named Morris Sweetwood, who had 25 cases of whiskey in his hotel room; 13 retail druggists; 47 physicians. Another 396 doctors who had sold their prescriptions for $1 apiece were scheduled for Grand Jury quizzing...