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MOBY DICK-Herman Melville; illustrated by Rockwell Kent-Random House...
...Hotel. About once a season comes a play so superlative as this. People have been going to see Grand Hotel for some time in Max Reinhardt's Berlin theatre, elsewhere in Europe. It was written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy...
Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski turned and saw (he said) an apparition of Wagner's Siegfried, helmeted and armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that...
Best art directing?Herman Gosse (The King of Jazz...
...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...