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Mozart. What palpitations of the heart are inspired in worldly Pari sian ladies by the virginal naivete of a blooming youth is the theme of Sacha Guitry's† play. Interest is added by making that youth Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom history has already surrounded with romance and pathos...
...Young Wolfgang goes back Salzburg in the end with a tidy score against the French husbands...
...trudged briskly into the library of the Senate, last week. There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The old man's whiskers drooped and his oily skin crinkled in little gleaming lines. His short stature and bulky form were nondescript, commonplace. Yet at the sound of his imperious voice the librarian looked up and started back. The eyes and bearing of M. Georges Eugene Benjamin Adrien Clemenceau have ever compelled instant respect and usually instant obedience...
Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
...phenomenon in the world of letters; it had been difficult for Goethe's own countrymen. Whatever has been urged against Goethe,--his supposed lack of moralty, his irreligious, his coldness and selfishness, his disregard of others, his inconstancy,--you may find it all in the works of Borne and Wolfgang Menxel and in other German writers preceding them...