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Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates...
...Napoleon. Biographers are at their worst when they write about men whose deeds are too gigantic and too inherently theatrical to fit the neat and flashing patterns of the stage. Napoleon's hundred days were too dramatic for the drama. Forgetting this, B. Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays...
...America fifty years behind its possible improvement.' . . . If I read the times aright, the chambers of commerce, the Lowells, the associations of mayors and governors will succeed in their protests against the rising costs of education. Then our magnificent high schools will follow in the tracks of Napoleon the Little to an inglorious end at some Sedan...
Emil Ludwig (biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilhelm II) neglected to fulfill a lecture engagement in Milwaukee, Wis.; went to Daytona Beach, Fla., to visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...nothing; a man is everything," said Napoleon in one of his most famous and tersely paradoxical dicta. Much the same remark, somewhat differently phrased applies very well to the latest play by William Hodge, "Straight Thru the Door...