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LOOK THROUGH THE BARS - Ernst Toller-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Letters and poems written during a five-year political imprisonment (1919-1924) by a now exiled German poet-playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...GERMAN-Ernst Toller-Morrow ($2.75). Autobiography of a Socialist playwright and Jew, now in exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Books of the Fortnight | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Bloody Laughter is strong theatrical brew. It was written by Ernst Toller who has spent a good deal of his time in various German jails since the War for being an incorrigible Red. His Man and The Masses was produced by the Theatre Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Using the stage as a soap box, Playwright Toller now harangues through the character of Egon Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...going badly in the Hinkemann home. Egon constantly hears imaginary laughter ringing in his ears, pitiless, mocking laughter at his infirmity. His best friend seduces, impregnates his wife. She commits suicide. Egon finds himself a piece of rope and walks off the stage to become another victim, Herr Toller would have you believe, of mankind's most savage enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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