Word: ludwig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DIANA-Emil Ludwig-Viking...
...love-affairs, Diana is rarely the one to suffer; and Author Ludwig has so arranged matters that her willing victims, though never forgetful, always forgive. Between diversions, Diana is the capable secret agent and business adviser of canny Millionaire Scherer. Only once is she the cause of tragedy: a duel in which a former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give...
...Emil Ludwig is chiefly famed for biographies (Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, July '14); Diana is his first novel to be translated into English...
...American, once noted as a pedestrian, commercially-minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...
...sculptor's friends maintained he was sent to the asylum on a false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was denied them. After three hours, the bewildered Dreyfuss, as his own chief witness, spoke of the time he was losing while he was incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward...