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...Vicki Baum intended "Hotel Berlin" to give an insight into the Nazis' character structure and show how defeats are affecting their smug arrogance. Hollywood has adapted her novel into a lusty adventure story which has neither subtlety nor suspense and would be a complete failure if not for a few very impressive minor characterizations...
Hotel Berlin (Warner), complete with undergrounders, traitors and hot & cold running Nazis, turns Vicki Baum's old Grand Hotel formula to topical account. Its salient characters: an old-line general (Raymond Massey) trying to escape the consequences of plotting against Hitler's life; a diplomat (Henry Daniell) who is sorry he can't help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when...
...Vicki Baum, author of glossy, sexy novels about fashionable internationals (Grand Hotel), denounced her newest, Once in Vienna, as her first attempt, written at the age of 15: ". . . I never authorized the publication . . . or the title of this adolescent, utterly dated and ridiculous sin of my early youth...
Carrying no stipend, the John Harvard Scholarships have been awarded to the following men: Stanley V. Baum '45, John M. Bullitt '43, Louis W. Cabot '43, Kenneth M. Case '45, Frederic Cunningham, Jr. '43, William H. Forster '44, Edward W. Garrison '43, George H. Gerard '43, Frank F. Goodman '44, Isadore I. Hirschman, Jr. '43, Colin F. N. Irving '45, Walter J. John- son '44, Thomas S. Kuhn...
Marion Alive is the first book Miss Baum has written in English. She is, justly, rather proud of it, for it is written, as she talks, with colloquial ease, spirit and a tinge of accent. It is also her first "subjective novel." Asked to what degree it is or is not autobiographical, she says, "Well, I know who is the father of my children...