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Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...
...Beth Merrill and Philip Merivale; and the subject is sex. Mr. Belasco has held U. S. attention for many years, and sex has held it even longer. But both, unfortunately, have lost to some extent their novelty for playgoers. Time was when a Belasco production, correct to the last curl of cigaret smoke, was considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study...
This fashion of making bricks has great wastage. In the kiln heat a great portion of the bricks warp and curl. Some can be sold for seconds and used in the hidden supporting walls of low grade apartment houses. Most, however, must be crushed and used as road-making filler...
...Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango has on display his photograph with the smug inscription: "To the only man who could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below the Shavian autograph, "Could Birkenhead teach you no law?" then added, "Do let us have a little less of your perfection, My Dear...
...grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl the lip, reflect with Hugo Riesmann: "His last works only too clearly reveal his determination to make a sensation at all costs...