Gabriel, Gilbert Wolf
(1890–1952)
GABRIEL, GILBERT WOLF. Critic; b. New York, New York, January 18, 1890; d. Mt. Kisco, New York, September 3, 1952. Gabriel began his career as a reporter for the New York Evening Sun in 1912. From 1917 to 1924 he held the post of music critic and from 1925 to 1929 was drama critic. He assumed the same responsibilities on the New York American from 1929 to 1937. At the same time he lectured on dramatic criticism for New York University. At The New Yorker magazine he created the “profile”…