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Through the saga of the Buddenbrooks clatters the Manns' ancient family coach. Their medievally faithful servant, Ida Jungmann, tended Thomas. He published Buddenbrooks in 1901, the year of the first Nobel Prize, which he did not win. For almost three decades Buddenbrooks has been constantly in press, still sells in Germany at the rate of 4,000 copies yearly, was brought out in the U. S. by Knopf...
Died. Fraulein Ida von Hindenburg, 77, of Berlin, only sister of President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg; at Potsdam...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
...SILVER VIRGIN-Ida A. R. Wylie -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In the little Spanish church of the Silver Virgin, where years ago he had found Justine, Gale sought sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew...
...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...