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Casanova's Homecoming, by Arthur Schnitzler, deals with that celebrated scamp, charlatan and boudoir-athlete at a time when he could no longer conceal from himself the obvious fact that he was getting on in years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner...
...philosophy of a wounded Hungarian count. These tales are free of the tiresome sex discussions which marred Lawrence's last two novels. Their intense mysticism shows his work at its best, though it may puzzle readers accustomed to straight stories. THE ROAD TO THE OPEN?Arthur Schnitzler?Knopf ($2.50). Schnitzler is better known as a dramatist than a novelist. The present novel is a translation of his longest and best fiction. With his accustomed subtlety and melancholy it pictures the life of a young man in Vienna who lives for pleasure only, his various entanglements, his interest in and creation...
Within the past week an indictment was found against those Manhattanites most prominently associated with the production of Asch's God of Vengeance; also, an attempt was made to interfere with the private performance of Schnitzler's " Riegen," also-within a few months judges in New York have been called upon to express their opinion of Cabell's Jurgen, D. H. Lawrence's three latest novels, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter. The law allows artists more liberty than they realize, for proceedings against them are usually extralegal. The statute in New York, the result...
Reigen-a play by Schnitzler, to which Mr. Otto H. Kahn would not listen. (P. 17.) Russian investment in 3,000,000 rubles and 125,000 machine...
...Otto H. Kahn refused to attend a private reading last Sunday of Eeigen, Schnitzler's outspoken drama, which the New York Green Room Club was to give in his honor. His refusal followed a letter of protest from Charles S. Sumner, President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. According to Mr. Sumner, the play's performance in Berlin last year was the cause of rioting. It is answered that the rioting was not that of protesting virtue, but of eager spectators trying...