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...Story. Hermann Sudermann, novelist and dramatist, one of the most significant and important figures in recent German literature, turns, in The Book of My Youth, to reminiscence, and sets down, at some length, the exterior and interior events of his life as far as the middle twenties...
...reflects that 4,000,000 attend pictures daily in America) have so long prophesied: Within the Law is not only consistently interesting, but it is convincing. This may, but probably will not, prove to a few of the commercial directors that it is actually profitable to leave the original dramatist to his own devices...
...revival of Bernard Shaw's Candida, which many eminent critics consider his finest drama, will open in New York on May 7. Next to Shakespeare, Shaw is revived oftener than any other dramatist...
...These tales are free of the tiresome sex discussions which marred Lawrence's last two novels. Their intense mysticism shows his work at its best, though it may puzzle readers accustomed to straight stories. THE ROAD TO THE OPEN?Arthur Schnitzler?Knopf ($2.50). Schnitzler is better known as a dramatist than a novelist. The present novel is a translation of his longest and best fiction. With his accustomed subtlety and melancholy it pictures the life of a young man in Vienna who lives for pleasure only, his various entanglements, his interest in and creation of music, his friends both...
...forgiveness. They allowed themselves to be "played for suckers" by a press agent. Harry Reichenbach juggled the names of Otto Kahn and the Green Room Club, and thereby got free publicity for Reigen-columns of it in every paper. Reigen is a play by Schnitzer, a great dramatist, but the point which Reichenbach took pains to "put over" was that it was immoral. How many of the millions who read the "story" knew that it was manufactured news? Most editors are sorry it happened. Coming so soon after the Chaplin-Negri wedding stunt, it may at least serve to increase...