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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | May 22, 1929 issue

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The author discusses that the men who write of plays and books and politics have need to set up a crackling sound and make offenders tremble. Particularly in the arts all is kindness and consideration. In the theater Duses are discovered daily and hats go sailing into the air when any rather pretty girl walks across the stage without tripping over the furniture. So debased have the adjectives of criticism become that when a reviewer wants to indicate that something was pretty terrible he conveys that fact by writing, "In the important role of the butler Mr. Smith was adequate."

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