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Gilbert Seldes
Gilbert Vivian Seldes
(; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine
The Dial
and hosted the
NBC
television program
The Subject is Jazz
(1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like
Vanity Fair
and the
Saturday Evening Post
. He was most interested in American popular culture and
cultural history
. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including
Lysistrata
and
A Midsummer Night's Dream
in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for
CBS News
and the founding Dean of the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
.
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