Word: sudermann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wonder of Women (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). By thoughtful creation of character this film avoids being a restatement of one of the standard generalities about people with artistic temperament. It is adapted from Sudermann's The Wife of Stephen Tromholt and the outlines of the original story, even its tragic ending, have been intelligently adhered to. Lewis Stone is the composer who marries a poor widow with three children and who sticks to her in spite of his attraction to a younger woman. Peggy Wood is his wife. Stone leaves her once, then comes home, acknowledges his responsibility. Five years later...
...PROFESSOR-Hermann Sudermann (translated by Isabel Leighton and Otto P. Schinnerer)-Horace Liveright, 2 vols...
...Professor is not the swift motivated story one might expect from so incisive a dramatist as Sudermann. Rather it is a leisurely commentary on German University life, with its Bismarckian politics, Junker fraternities, duels and drinking bouts - everything, in. short, but intellectualism. To point the narrative Sudermann projects a philosophical genius into the stolid pussyfooting faculty, and predicates the dangerous futility of his in dependent thinking. That Professor Sieburth should have independent ideas strikes the faculty as bad enough, but that he should live his ideas is intolerable...
...particular history of Sieburth, genius, is unconvincing. Sudermann's general thesis is none the less cogent. And his analysis of masculine reasoning, as op posed to feminine blind unreasoning, has an uncanny authenticity...
...small-town brewer in East Prussia, Sudermann left school at the age of 14, was apprenticed to a chemist, turned up nevertheless at Immanuel Kant's university in Konigsberg. Sometime journalist in Berlin, he finally devoted himself exclusively to writing novels, and plays, provocative in their sociological significance - Die Ehre, Es lebe das Leben. He died last November, aged...