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Repertory. Eva Le Gallienne announced the following new plays for her next season's program: The Good Hope, from the Dutch by Herman Heijermans; Two Plus Two Make Five, from the Danish by Gustav Weid; Invitation au Voyage, by Jean Jacques Bernard; a U. S. comedy not yet selected; Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in which Clare Eames, formerly with the Theatre Guild (Ned McCobb's Daughter, Juarez and Maximilian) will alternate in the title role with Miss Le Gallienne...
Finally the afflicted French Foreign Minister retired to his bed in the Hotel des Bergues with a compress over both eyes. Into his bedroom came, daily, for conference, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain These "Big Three," putting their heads together, and occasionally calling in lesser statesmen for political consultation, virtually made up last week, the Council of the League of Nations. . . . Their problems...
...League Council Members, notably Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Aristide Briand and Dr. Gustav Stresemann (respectively foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany) had power last week only to scan the Albanian note, make it a matter of record. They then proceeded with the humdrum but important routine business of the League...
There are two periods in man's life, or at least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
...Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...