HALE, PHILIP , American music and dramatic critic, was born at Norwich, Vt., March 5, 1854. He graduated at Yale in 1876, was admitted to the bar at Albany, N.Y., in 1879 and studied music in Germany and France from 1882 to 1887. While he was a church organist (1888-1905) he wrote musical criticism for the Boston Post and the Journal, and edited first the Musical Record and afterwards the Musical World. In 1903 he joined the editorial staff of the Boston Herald.