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...Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that he merely cheapens himself when...
...first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile...
...Auden's new poems are dedicated to his wife, Erika Mann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, and the dedicatory lines set the tone...
Married. Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, 26, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf; and Cinemactress Erika Patzek, 22; in London. Deprived of royal rights by marriage (TIME, March 5), the couple will be known as Mr. and Mrs. Sigvard Bernadotte...
Sigvard knew something of life. Six years ago, when he was 20, he had known Greta Garbo in Stockholm. Three years ago he firmly refused to marry fat Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. But for Erika he could think of nothing but marriage. Several months ago he took his little blonde back to Stockholm to get the King's permission. With a snort of pain Gustaf packed up and went down to the Riviera to play tennis, knowing well that Swedish law forbids a prince to marry in Sweden without his permission. But Sigvard was set on deserting...