George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathanwas an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth14 February 1882
CountryUnited States of America
art darkness criticism
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
sarcastic triumph sugar
The triumph of sugar over diabetes.
stupidity platforms profundity
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
health catching seems
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
men looks way
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
air flying flags
There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
friends money reading
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
skins dollars hollywood
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
wine dinner theater
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.
successful fighting criticism
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
believe doe prejudice
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
powerful actors publicity
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
successful natural-instinct ham
A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.
men theatre remember
Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.