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...Vicki Baum is sentimental, for which no conscientious intelligentsiac will forgive her; but she tells a good story. And unlike most of her Teutonic peers and superiors, she has a sense of humor...
...that Mr. Hearst was out to outdo the greatest book houses. The Cosmopolitan stable of authors was expensively expanded until it included such prize exhibits as Louis Bromfield (reputedly under contract for five books at $60,000 a book), Erich Maria Remarque, Anita Loos, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Suckow, Vicki Baum, Colette, Rex Beach, besides such old Hearst standbys as Peter B. Kyne. Harry Leon Wilson, the late James Oliver Curwood. By taking over Cosmopolitan's contracts, Farrar & Rinehart stepped overnight from second rank to very first. Publisher Farrar was pleased, and well he might...
...look a pretty average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease to be typical specimens, become (in most cases) strikingly individual. The fact that it duplicates the idea of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel overshadows but does not invalidate the book...
...Authoress Vicki Baum, whose dramatized Grand Hotel has made a hit on Broadway, tells a light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer...
...work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...