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Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn...
After all this is a highly name thought, but is it a consistent one? Mr. Lewisohn evidently is defending "modern" literature and does it well and intelligently because he chooses to point out those exponents of it who are worthy of praise. That Goethe's "Gah mitein Gott zu sagen was ich leids" is expressed in a good many of the moderns is not to be denied and that this expression is often artistic and beautiful is likewise true. But the idea of self expression "to help gave the world" would hardly fit in with true Romanticist idea...
...Adolph Lewisohn, German-born Manhattan capitalist: "I provided my home last week for a meeting of the Westchester County Committee of the New York State Charities Aid Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
...CASE OF MR. CRUMP-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2). A mismated musician...
...nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins...