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...Harvard Department of Germanic languages and literatures as well as the Visiting Committee on German have further kept his memory alive by arranging four public evening lectures at Sanders Theater. Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, brilliant lecturer of the University of Breslau has already commanded two of such meetings. Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Bliss Perry, Emeritus, will deliver the two remaining lectures on March fourth and March twenty-second respectively...
...town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable
...dislikes contracts and travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...
...compared them with the signers of the last famed ' Manifesto of German Intellectuals, the Manifest of the "Culture-Warriors" of 1914 which loudly proclaimed the justness of Germany's cause. Four of 1914's fighting Intellectuals were among last week's rational Intellectuals: Playwright Gerhart Hauptmann, Artist Max Liebermann, Professor Adolph von Harnack, Scientist Max Planck. Hindenburg. Just as in Wartime both sides claim the Deity for their partisan, so last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted...
Germans in the know whispered to friends that there isn't any "Dorothy Lane," or any J. L. S. Weekly, that the play had been entirely concocted by Elizabeth Hauptmann, pungent Socialist playwright (no relation to Playwright Gerhart [Sunken Bell] Hauptmann ), and that the last act would be etwas famos! ("swell...