Word: hauptmanns
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Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...
...Hauptmann. In the Germania group, Albert B. Faust, professor at Cornell University, said that when he visited Gerhart Hauptmann in Germany during the past summer Mr. Hauptmann expressed a desire to visit the U. S. during the next year incognito in order that he might observe the Government and people. He plans to place his observations in book form as an assistance to the new Republic of Germany...
...Hauptmann German...
...Author. Hermann Sudermann shares with Gerhart Hauptmann the perhaps dubious honor of being considered a contemporary classic by his own nation in his own time. He is chiefly famous as a novelist and dramatist and his reputation in both fields is international...
...FALSEFACE - George Jean Nathan - Knopf. Mr. Nathan is a conscientious professional iconoclast. He continues to knock down his favorite idols and to scatter the ruins. His victims range from the more eminent of modern dramatists to the more generally accepted of modern doctrines. His endorsements are few. They include Hauptmann, Flo Ziegfeld, Eugene O'Neill, the younger Guitry, George M. Cohan...