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Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...
...English correspondents and visitors, she has good to say of Hemingway, Jay Allen, Josephine Herbst, Dorothy Parker, Joe North; bad of Errol Flynn, Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwood...
John Herrmann was a traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...
Rope of Gold avoids the Depression, skips to 1933-1937, a period which has ruined even more novels than the Depression. Josephine Herbst, however, comes through solvent...
...Gold is equally prodigal with characters. The four main ones are an intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...