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...table with Hauptmann, as if I were sitting at a table with Beethoven, Heine, Goethe - and Hauptmann. Thank you. I can say no more." Actress Barrymore sat down, sobbed gently into a lace handkerchief. Occasion was a dinner at Manhattan's Lotos Club for Gerhart Hauptmann, famed German dramatist. Sturdy, ruddy at 69, Dramatist Hauptmann was invited to the U. S. by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With him came his second wife and his son, Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, translator of Conrad and Kipling, interpreter for his father. At Columbia University Dr. Hauptmann delivered a Goethe centenary address...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, distinguished dramatist and winner of the Nobel prize or Literature in 1912, will be guest of honor at the Leverett House luncheon at 12.45 o'clock today. Last night Dr. Hauptmann spoke at the festival in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Goethe. His son, Benvenute, will also be present along with Dr. F. W. J. Heuser of Columbia University, president Lowell, Professors Sigurthur Nordal, J. D. M. Ford, E. K. Rand Taylor Starct, and Mr. Paul Bacon. Corrupt city government precipitation two innocent younsters into prison, the girl to be held for life...
There is on display at the Colonial Theatre an uneven morality play, write and enacted by George Bernard Shaw, and staged through the cooperation of the Theatre Guild and its actors. No longer does the old man of the English stage pretend to be a dramatist; his characters, from bacillus to the "sententious anchorite," are but the assorted speaking trumpets through which G. B. S. is announcing to the world his opinions on the war, the League of Nations, the excellencies of a vegetarian diet, Einstein, France and her "security," and H. G. Wells...
Though it is as a dramatist that Hauptmann is best known, he has written a number of novels and short stories of which "The Fool in Christ" 1910, and "The Heretic of Soana" have obtained the widest circulation. He has also written verse-dramas and epics. Much discussion has been aroused by one of his latest works, which is based on the stories connected with the medieval Flemish jokester, Tyll Eulenspiegel. In the year 1912 Hauptmann received the Nobel prize and he has received honorary degree from various universities, among them Oxford...
Hauptmann is recognized as the most important German dramatist of the last half century and his name is usually mentioned together with that of Ibsen. His home is in his native Silesian mountains...