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Died. Emil Ludwig, 67, German-born biographer, playwright and political essayist, whose popular, sentimentalized big-name biographies (Goethe, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Stalin) set a fashion; of a heart ailment; in Ascona, Switzerland. The son of a rich Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig began his prolific writing career as a verse dramatist, switched to war correspondence and then to highly colored biography. A voluntary exile from Germany since 1907 (his books were later burned by the Nazis), he became a Swiss citizen in 1932, worked as a $1-a-year bond salesman for the U.S. Treasury during World...
...Raimu, once more triumphant over youthful indiscretion. Whether or not such repetition dulls French sensibilities, however, the lack of such basic themes in the Hollywood (or British) repertoire will insure a warm reception here, especially since that theme has been thoroughly seasoned with earthy humor unknown to the conventional dramatist and with backgrounds totally devoid of artificiality. Incidentally, the English titling is excellent...
...Poet-Dramatist T. S. Eliot, who is working on a new play, explained all about it to a reporter who asked what the subject was. "Why, you see," said Eliot, "in the play I study the relations of certain characters with other characters and of certain characters with themselves...
...after all, rather inscrutable, Western Europeans could make the best of the tangible present. Football fever gripped Paris. Fifty thousand jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...