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...What makes this a brilliant picture is the way it has been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta...
...even free publicity from the House of Representatives does not seem to have boosted its sales appreciably. Among the freaks and curiosities Ogden Nash's "Hard Lines" and a little book of ridiculous answers to examination questions called "Boners" are about the best sellers in Cambridge today. Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" is the most successful of the recent novels and seems to have displaced the "Imperial Palace" of Arnold Bennett in popularity...
Grand Hotel. About once a season comes a play so superlative as this. People have been going to see Grand Hotel for some time in Max Reinhardt's Berlin theatre, elsewhere in Europe. It was written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy...
...editors are as follows: Bailey Aldrich 2L, Frederick Baum 2L E. J. Brown 3L, Max Freund 2L, R. W. Hankins 2L, D. L. Kreeger 2L, L. S. Lesser 3L, S. H. Levt 2L, H. S. Marks 2L; A. M. Miller 2L, H. P. Moulton 3L, John Mulford 2L, A. A. Raum 2L, George Rosier 3L, L. P. Shoene 2L, Joseph Shulsky 2L, M. H. Siegel 2L, R. L. Stern 2L, E. I. Willis 2L, W. S. Youngman...
Married. Doris Doscher, model of the present U. S. 25¢ pieces, because in the opinion of Government authorities she best represented "the highest type of American womanhood"; and a Dr. H. William Baum, physiotherapist; at the Jewish Institute of Religion in Manhattan...