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Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...
...Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...
...five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, 64, son of an inn keeper, chief exponent in the '90s of what was then "modern drama." His Vor Sonnenaufgang, (Before Sunrise), 1889, inaugurated and gave impetus to the new German dramatic movement which, unlike that of other lands, is still pressing on to new and violently original achievements. Like Sudermann, Hauptmann subsided as a great creative artist about 1910, though only last year he published the much talked of satirical novel Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (The Isle of the Great Mother) ; and only last week his new Dorothea Angermann had its premiere in Vienna...
...distinction of nationality (TiME, Nov. 30, 1925). Individual awards now total about $35,000 each, and are made annually, provided, 1) the candidates are deserving, and 2) the interest on the invested funds is adequate. The Literature winners include: Sully-Prudhomme (1901, first award made), Kipling (1907), Maeterlink, (1911), Hauptmann (1912), Tagore (1913), Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921). Yeats (1923) Reymont (1924) and 6 Scandinavians...