Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Habits: Smokes not; drinks not. Does not gamble. Eats a thoroughgoing breakfast. Prefers light luncheon and dinner when permitted. Avoids rich dishes. Likes sweets...
...somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with an uncouth and elaborate imitation of his gesture...
Honeymoon Hate is essentially The Taming of the Shrew relieved of its light-hearted ribaldry and trimmed instead with lavish gondolic romance. Florence Vidor is charming enough, as she storms gently at her insistently regal husband, to impart some flavor to the insipid story...
...retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces genius, cites his cases to show what can be done despite the handicap, in the hope (presumably) of encouraging countless patients who have lost hope...
Author Schnitzler began to write poetry, "and such bad poetry," when he was ten years old. At 40 he gave up practicing medicine to write. A native of Hungary, he has written the light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...