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
goes-on literature now-and-then
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
tired men encounters
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
women wife firsts
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
women humor cosmetics
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
dog stars spring
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.
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.
interesting alcohol drink
I drink so the others become interesting.
wise artist mind
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
drama night theatre
Drama - what literature does at night.
flower theatre doe
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
marriage wedding jobs
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.