Word: emile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
...come down to things that happen more quickly than action by the legislature, this week sees the appearance in Boston of two men, eminently worth while, culturally speaking, who if box office returns are to be trusted, will fill two of the largest auditoriums in Boston--Emil Ludwig and Count Keyserling. That such visitors can rival "Bossy" Gillis as a drawing card shows that the spark of culture, at least, is not lacking, and proves once more the advantage which Harvard men enjoy over their collegues in institutions more richly endowed by nature but not in educational opportunity...
...maker of these safe but sizzling statements, last week, was German Celebrity Dr. Emil Ludwig, 47. He stepped off the Majestic with his handsome wife, espoused in South Africa when he was 22. Throughout the U. S. his Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers, are best selling biographies...
Husbands or Lovers provides somewhat sombre proof that immorality is poor policy. The wife (Elizabeth Bergner) leaves her husband (Emil Jannings) for a lover (Conrad Veidt) who grows tired of strenuous affection in a furnished room. At the last she decides the question of husband or lover by choosing neither and committing suicide. All this does not make for light entertainment; but, like most films made in Germany, the picture displays the advantages of intelligent direction with fine acting...
GENIUS AND CHARACTER-Emil Ludwig-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). "And what else must we do but trace this man's every thought and act, every motive and impulse, back to the indivisible elements of his personality?" This is a fine and an austere credo for a biographer. Author Ludwig who followed it so completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking...