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...Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-), German, director of the Hygienic Institute, Marburg, discoverer of diphtheria antitoxin, authority on bovine tuberculosis...
...18th century (when the Court conducted itself on a scale that only the movies can latterly conceive) is the background of the present opus. Intrigue, war with Sweden, all the old town pomp of St. Petersburg pass bravely in review. Yet the most impressive feature of the entertainment is Emil Janning's Peter. Under the play of his personality the moving picture book of history comes vividly to life...
...Dismissal (of Bismarck), an historical antimonarchist play by Emil Ludwig, was produced for the first time at Berlin and has caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...daily: " Why did Kaiser Wilhelm try to suppress this play? Well, he fares very badly in it; but, despite his charges of malice against the author, it must have painfully struck his conscience that much of it is only too good a likeness, is only too true. Of course, Emil Ludwig could not have written this play before the war. He had first to free himself from the conventional prejudices and fetters from which we all suffered then. We all look on these things with different eyes now that a catastrophe has opened thema catastrophe for which Wilhelm was certainly...
...Walter Emil Bauer, A.M., German...