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...some interested group has become especially evident. Although it may be true that Nazi propaganda has gone far towards maiming the current cinema in Germany, there are many less recent productions, readily available at slight expense, whose worth goes undisputed. Even the silent films made by such artists as Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt display a subtlety of touch seldom if ever matched in the Hollywood mill...
...trim young woman who, flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused the Negro porter at the depot some concern. He seemed to have had too much to drink. His luggage included a smallbore rifle and cartridges. (It later developed that he was expected to compete in a shoot at Chicago's North Shore...
...rate cut on their tickets. The U. S. banks took the loss. The German lines received their full passage price in marks. In due course competing lines, members of the Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference, complained bitterly in Manhattan to the Conference's "Tsar," honest, hot-tempered, Bohemian-born Emil Lederer...
Among Jews who waited too long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there...
...River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut...