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TWILIGHT ON THE DANUBE-F. C. Weiskopf-Knopf...
Worldly, amorous, 56-year-old Publisher Reither is the principal character in Czech-born F. C. Weiskopf's novel about Prague on the eve of World War I. When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with...
...Author Weiskopf packs into his novel a host of characters whose stumbling, often shady, approach to life neatly matches Austria's equally stumbling and shady progress into war. Twilight on the Danube glimmers romantically with bluebearded armament manufacturers, handsome intelligence officers, youthful idealists, and tea-party gargle about actresses and the disturbed condition of Balkan affairs. By the time the fatal shot has been fired at Sarajevo, Publisher Reither has found and lost his last and greatest love, and his entire family have fallen victims to their own dreams and to the Empire's infectious blend of sloppiness...
...Securities & Exchange Commission last week dished up a list of notable 1934 salaries. Biggest raises went to the crack executives of National Distillers Products Corp. President Seton Porter's annual salary was upped from $51,000 to $75,000. Most of the vice presidents were boosted, including Daniel K. Weiskopf who was jumped from $15,640 to $47,286. Even Secretary & Treasurer Thomas A. Clark was raised from...
...Coat, a Glove (by William Speyer, adapted by William A. Drake; Crosby Gaige and D. K. Weiskopf, producers). "Tell Mr. Cravath to be there by one," says Lawyer Robert Mitchell (A. E. Matthews) to his secretary in this play. This cool second-act instruction does not mean that famed Paul D. Cravath is about to be seen in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan...