"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Having celebrated the centenary of Goethe's death with lectures at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, white-maned Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my...
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