The Press: Yule Log-Rolling

Manhattan's most frequently quoted newspapermen are the drama critics of its nine dailies. How the average play producer feels about them is summed up in a current comedy by a character who calls them "middleaged men on the aisle who hated Mickey Mouse when they were kids." Nevertheless, a producer or a playwright is usually glad to quote critics in large display ads when they have something good to say about his show.

Not so Veteran Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who once took an ad to call critics "a sort of Jukes family of journalism."...

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