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Salzburg. Special music and drama, July 25-Aug. 30. Diversified programs will be directed by such famed men as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schalk, Bruno Walter...
...stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged as counsel Morris L. Ernst, defender of many a "liberal" cause...
...Lawyer Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond...
When the decision went against him, Lawyer Ernst declared he would appeal on the grounds that the Society constitutes itself a branch of the Government and hence is not permitted to sue a private concern...
...Ernst Udet was an ace second only to famed Baron von Richthofen. An Iron Cross man and squadron com-mander at the age of 22, he was credited with bringing down 62 Allied planes-by himself. Lately he has devoted himself to cinema, was featured as the flyer in Ufa's The White Hell of Pitz Palu...