Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
Born. To Luise Rainer, 34, two-Oscar cinemactress of the '30s (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), and Robert Knittel, 30, Manhattan editor (Creative Age Press); their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Francesca. Weight...
...Bemelmans. But its humor and gaiety paradoxically give place to sadness when Schoenberner describes his career with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit...
Married. Luise Rainer. 33, bang-browed, earnest-eyed actress, twice winner of Hollywood's top acting honors (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, The Good Earth, 1937). lately occupied with USOverseas entertaining; and Robert Knittel. English-born editor (Creative Age Press); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...