Hannen Swaffer
Hannen Swaffer ( born 1 November 1879 in Lindfield, Sussex, England; † January 16, 1962 in London) was a British journalist and theater critic.
Biography
Swaffer visited the Stroud Green Grammar School in Kent and began early to work as a theater critic. Because of their often harsh reviews of his access to the local theater was already failed at 18 years; later he boasted to have banned in twelve of forty-one for West End Theatres. From 1902 he worked for the Daily Mail, whose chief Lord Northcliffe made him the editor of the Weekly Dispatch, and he supported them, reshape the Daily Mirror of a women's magazine to a tabloid. After that, he was a theater critic (heading Plays and Players ) in the Sunday Times, in 1924 a short time editor of The People, and from 1926 critics of the Daily Express, where he was going particularly against the exaggerated his view Americanization of the British theater. From 1931 he worked for the Daily Herald.
Hannen Swaffer was a socialist, but resigned in 1957 from the Labour Party from. He was also a spiritualist. It repeats after him, that he has written about a million words per year. His apodictic statements created him the nickname " The Pope of Fleet Street."