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...Hugo Stinnes' funeral, Maximilian Harden, German Socialist writer, had published his latest volume of Kopfe (heads), a series of character sketches of great German men of the present time. Herr Harden in discussing the "King of Coke" admires his financial genius but despises his political ability...
Secrets. Norma Talmadge has an uncanny trick of enhancing her beauty year after year while new screen stars rise before the camera, harden into the semblance of cabaret girls, then iris out. In this triplicate role, she is first a romantic eloper, then a wife struggling with her husband in the American wilderness, then the forgiving wife of a philandering notable...
Maximilian Harden, noted publicist, whose War-time tirades against the Kaiser have been widely published and whose articles against his own country are possibly inspired by a lack of ready cash, once more broke into literary vituperation of Germany. Said he: "Why should America help Germany? It is all very well for Herr Stresemann and others, before and since, to shout to America for help for starving Germany, but Germany is literally crammed with food. Half of last year's harvest is still untouched. People in the towns are starving because the farmer and the landlord are keeping back...
Died. Richard Witting, brother of Maximilian Harden, famed German publicist, onetime friend of the ex-Kaiser, onetime Oberburgomaster of Posen, later a radical pacifist and antimonarchist; in Berlin...
...dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell in love with Millicent Harden whom Franklin Mills himself was thinking of marrying?and how at the last, when the house of Mills' self-absorbed pride had fallen to pieces about him, Bruce was able to share with his father the hope of happiness?forms the theme of this solid and interesting novel which reflects American...