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...reviewer amused Vicki Baum by suggesting that nobody in one lifetime could do and see all the things Heroine Marion Sommer did & saw. The facts are that even at 586 pages this novel is scarcely half its original length, and that Miss Baum was trying merely to set down the average experience of a European woman of her own generation...
MARION ALIVE-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran...
...Author. This is apparently the case with Miss Baum herself. Only child of Viennese bourgeois, Vicki Baum (real name: Hedwig) started writing when she was 14-surreptitiously, for her father disapproved of authors (he still does). She was also an ace harpist, gave up music when she married Richard Lert, who later conducted the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera Co. During the war she was, like Marion, a nurse; but "we didn't have these uniforms the women are wearing here now; soldiers needed them...
...desperation to pay doctor bills for her two sons. From her trunk she dragged a half-made romance about people in a big hotel which, with 40 days' work, became Menschen im Hotel-in English, Grand Hotel, one of the hits of the decade. It brought Vicki Baum to Manhattan and Hollywood, where she "fell in love" with...
Articulate, charming and forthright, Vicki Baum made excellent copy. She told women's clubs that American men were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...