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...presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned 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...
...rooms; Bogner saw a thousand gulden, a crumpled scrap of paper on the table where Rasda had thrown it. Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like the music of incredibly swift and al, most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev...
...name of Thomas Mann is nowhere near as famous in this country as that of Schnitzler or Wassermann; but in Germany, Herr Mann's novels rank as easily the peers of any written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
Austrian Dreams RHAPSODY?Arthur Schnitzler? Simon & Schuster ($1.50). What chances one misses at a ball! At the whole carnival of life! How dreamlike actual existence becomes how real our dreams, if the imagination is allowed to play over them sentimentally! So muses wistful Author Schnitzler. Being a Viennese, either with less than the usual inhibitions or more than the normal interest in sex, Author Schnitzler supplies his characters with chances and dreams of a strictly erotic nature. A doctor's wife, after a ball, confesses to him how very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having...
...arrangement with Donald S. Friede, vice president of Boni & Liveright, publishers, he has come to his native land to give a concert in Manhattan on April 10. With him comes his wife, niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. He is accompanied also by an amazing record. Every concert of his given in Europe has been crowded. For three years people have been turned away for lack of room in the halls whence his queer sounds emanated...