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...KING HABER-Alfred Neumann-Alfred H. King...
...historical romances now are being written by the Germans: Author Neumann, one of the youngest historian-romancers, is one of the best. His The Devil (Der Teufel) written on the same subject as Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, made Quentin Durward seem like a nursery tale. King Haber (Konig Haber) is a collection of three stories, more like condensed novels than short stories, written several years ago, now translated for the first time...
...King Haber was a Jewish banker of doubtful antecedents, who rose to great power in a German grand duchy,,became the lover of the Grand Duchess, father of her child. When the hostile nobility banded against him he saved the Grand Duchess by sacrificing his infant son, inviting death for himself. "The Patriot" (Der Patriot) is the story from which was taken the famed cinema of the same name (in which Cinemactor Emil Jannings played the mad Emperor Paul). It is the story of Count Fahlen, cold and cynical military governor of St. Petersburg, who played a complicated conspirator...
...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...
...marks. Then, unexpectedly, came the announcement that instead of selling the new issue by popular subscription. Mr. Ford was allowing it all to go to I. G. Farbenindustrie, Germany's famed Dye Trust. Furthermore, I. G. F.'s President, Carl Bosch, co-developer of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process, became Chairman of the Ford German company. Thus not the German people but the German Dye Trust became Ford associates. Thus Mr. Ford chose to make a financial instead of a popular alliance...