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Already several thousand subscriptions have poured in from a really remarkable group of Sweden's leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
...authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
...Ernst Thälmann, famed German Communist, now reputedly on a prison farm outside of Hanover...
Knowing these views, U.S. cinema gossip columns blackened with rumors of Rank deals with Paramount, with United Artists, with R.K.O., with everyone & anyone who might listen to smooth talk from Morris Ernst...
...only thing that keeps them from showing more British pictures is that there are not enough worth showing. Up to now, the cock-of-the-walk U.S. industry has had no reason to be cartel-minded, because it has had no really formidable international competition. But as Morris Ernst puts it: "Develop a giant to deal with a giant." If & when he can produce the pictures, J. Arthur Rank looks like a likely giant...