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Birthdays. Benedictus de Spinoza, 300; Gerhart Hauptmann, Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 70; Billy Sunday, 69; Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, General Henri Gouraud, 65; John Nance Garner, 63; Oklahoma, 25 (see p. 14); Archduke Otto of Habsburg...
Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany took his first evening off since entering office in June to go, one night last week, to Berlin's great Philharmonic. Thither also went Poet Gerhart Hauptmann, Albert Einstein and many another notable. Unlike U. S. bigwigs, Germany's first, citizens make a practice of attending important concerts. The scene, the air of suspense were similar on this occasion to one three years ago when the crowd interrupted the concert with 20 minutes' cheering and Dr. Einstein rushed backstage afterwards with tears in his eyes...
...headquarters at Munich. Chancellor von Papen dashed in another direction to a Cabinet meeting. Old Paul took his cane and walked slowly under the linden trees in the Chancellery garden. Thus ended a week of as tense plotting, bargaining and intrigue as Germany has seen since the War. Hauptmann von Schleicher. The most important man in Germany today, the man who foresaw this crisis, brought it on and was confidently prepared last week to deal with it, was not at the fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright (Feb. 29) LL.D...
Having celebrated the centenary of Goethe's death with lectures at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, white-maned Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending...