Word: hauptmanns
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...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving. With Maria Schell...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving, thanks mostly to an intensely intelligent performance by Maria Schell...
...whose name became known around the world after the 1932 kidnaping of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.; of a perforated ulcer; in West Orange, N.J. New Jersey's Governor Harold G. Hoffman thought more people were responsible for the death of the Lindbergh baby than Bruno Hauptmann, who was executed for the crime. Calling Schwarzkopf's investigation "the most bungled police job in history," the Governor refused to reappoint him. West Pointer Schwarzkopf went on to more fame as narrator of radio's Gang Busters series, re-entered the Army and was sent to Iran...
...pianists as well as a talented composer-became imperial royal professor of music to Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. Recalls Dagmar: "It was not unusual to come home [from school] and find Paderewski. Chaliapin, Kreisler, Hofmann, Caruso, Elman, Damrosch" or such writers as "Jakob Wassermann, Gerhart Hauptmann. Hermann Sudermann. Thomas Mann, every mann...
...University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...