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Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...
Lace Petticoat. Years ago, Carle Carlton produced Tangerine, Irene, then turned his back on Broadway. Now he returns with Lace Petticoat. Good songs by Emil Gersten-berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus...
...Faust (Emil Jannings). The German film, by Ufa, creator of The Last Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, achieves a triumph in photographic fantasy. From the ever-serviceable Faust story is derived a weird fairytale, a picture story of the powers of evil on earth. Through it all goes Emil Jannings, a not particularly impressive Devil, making funny faces, playing mean pranks, raising hell. In the end, however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than...
This, the greatest of Handel's works, probably the greatest and certainly the best loved of all oratorios, will be given Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, and Monday night at 3.15 in Symphony Hall, by the Handel and Haydn Society under the direction of Emil Mollenhauer. No Vagabond who has ever heard it will miss it, and no vagabond who has not, should...