DRAMATIC CRITICISM
Sir, —It is encouraging to see the work of your dramatic critic continuing always to 'be consistently and courageously true to an ambitious standard. The outraged objections of those who feel the quality of their work or taste questioned possibly just show the unsettling and healthy effect of sincerity. Destructive criticisiA may actually have a constructive effect, and no doubt the “concealed beauties” would have been discovered had they been present. About qualifications for a critic of dramatic or any other art, how pathetically current is the idea that all is known once we have taken a “course” in any subject. Really we should be more concerned with questions of personality, integrity, and with Whistler’s defence, “a lifetime of experience.”—Yours, etc.,
August 27, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25274, 28 August 1947, Page 5
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