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Failure to obtain production rights from the Theatre Guild makes it impossible for the Dramatic Committee of the Harvard Student Union to stage Louis Untermyer's 1922 translation of Ernst Toller's "Man and the Masses...
...play was written by Ernst Toller, famous German poet and revolutionary who committee suicide in America last year. "Man and the Masses" was written in a Bavarian prison in 1921 during the Communist revelt...
...Toller had long struggled against the advance of fascism. This drama is an indictment of the oppression of the masses and war. The setting is the strike of Munich munition workers during the last war, but it is generalized to include the larger struggle...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
...15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...