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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...
Parents began to complain because their children told them that the teacher was what they termed "cuckoo." A year ago Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the Board of Education, was called to see whether Miss Byrne was capable of teaching. After examining her with care, he stated that she was suffering from a "paranoid form of psychosis." At this, Mary Byrne was removed from her classroom, given odd jobs to do in the Training School Library so that she could earn her salary of $3,700 a year, while the Board of Education investigated her case...
Unlike his famed grandsire, who (according to Emil Ludwig, famed Teuton biographer) until he was well past 30 was considered a "Taugenichts" (good-for-nothing), annoying his neighbors with his scandalous affairs with women, Prince Otto, if intellectually inferior, is a mild-mannered, well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry...
...resigned. The future was dark. Last week was announced a sufficient guarantee for three years, 16 pairs of concerts to begin Nov. 4; 16 pairs of popular Sunday concerts; 10 young people's concerts; 5 in the public schools. Conductors, for the regular series, all guests, will be Emil Oberhoffer (Minneapolis), Willem Van Hoogstraten (Portland, Ore.), Eugene Goossens (Rochester), Bernardino Molinari (Rome), Karl Schuricht (Weisbaden). Ethel Leginska and Frederick Fischer, associate conductor, will lead some of the popular concerts...