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...short feature story in the New York American, Vicki Baum, Vienna-born German novelist, playwright of Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution...
When Vicki Baum, who fortnight ago stated she would henceforth reside in the U. S. instead of Berlin, saw Grand Hotel, she had reason to be pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest...
Authoress Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum entered the U. S. under the immigrant quota fortnight ago, plans to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, thus solving her German money problems...
Hotel Continental (Tiffany). Having stumbled upon unity-of-place in Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel, cinema producers have been fascinated by it, presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached...
...autobiographical; so much so in fact, that many who know the author or even who know Cambridge can recognize various of the characters. The novel, or "historical romance" as it is called, is composed of a series of episodes, almost short stories, of the youth of one Roger Baum during the last decade. First at a preparatory school, then in a stained glass works, subsequently in London and Paris, at college, and in the country, he meets life in various forms and is some-what passively affected by it. He is not a very real character; he does...