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...like to give themselves plenty of room. Good German Author Arnold Zweig* herewith puts out the first volume of his War epic. Volumes 2 and 4 (Education before Verdun, The Crowning of a King') are still to come. Volume 3 is the already-published The Case of Sergeant Grischa, one of the few good War books, often compared with the world-best-selling All Quiet on the Western Front, sometimes preferred...
Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst...
...Author. Stefan Zweig, of Salzburg, Austria, is no kin to Arnold Zweig of Berlin, author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Well and comfortably educated, he wandered the world, might have continued indefinitely had it not been for the War, which turned him to writing and made him a European bestseller. Manhattan theatre-goers know his adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Other U. S.-translated books: Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouche...
Some 30 manuscripts reviewing "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" were submitted to the judges, the Dramatic Critics of the CRIMSON and of the Daily. The winners, whose reviews appear on page four of this issue, may obtain their prizes by calling at the University Theatre today after 2 o'clock...
Manuscripts of the movie review of the "Case of Sergeant Grischa," for the $10 prizes given by the Harvard CRIMSON and the Radcliffe Daily, must be handed in either at the CRIMSON building or the Radcliffe Daily box, in Agassiz Hall, by noon today...