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ERNST TOLLER
LITERATURE
FOUND HANGED FILLED WITH
IN NEW YORK
NOSTALGIA
ARNST TOLLER, Socialist A very favourite American word
pacifist playwright, most is "sophisticated”-I've even seen eloquent of the refugees from advertisements there of "sophisti- the Nazi regime, was found cated Christmas presents." And hanged in a New York hotel on another favourite word is "nostal- May 22. He was forty-five. gia”
With his twenty-two-year-old actress wife, formerly Lili Gran- toff, he left his London home in February, to attend the forthcoming presentation in New York of his latest play.
Mr. R. Ellis Roberts, London writer and friend of Toller, said: "When he left he was optimistic and in good spirits.
"I wonder if they have got at him. He was always a bit appre- hensive about being followed. I would never give his address to any one except a few trustworthy people."
In 1935 Toller revealed that three attempts had been made by Nazi agents to shanghai him back- to Germany. On each occasion he received a note fixing an appoint- ment, once in London, again in Italy, and then in Switzerland,
GESTAPO AGENT
Some time later he recognised the writing of the notes as that of Wedemann, Gestapo agent who was finally jailed by the Swiss for running another refugee back to Germany.
And perhaps the shortest pos- sible description I could make of American literature is that it is not sophisticated, but it is filled with nostalgia.
TWO KINDS
Like beef and oysters, American writing is of two kinds-native and imported. By imported I mean the kind of writing under Euro- pean influence, and connected chiefly with the big cities.
Now we have come to think of América in terms of its big cities of New York and Detroit-and Chicago and Pittsburgh, and so on.
I call this "native writing”—which The curious thing is that what
actually is the best of its litera- with the big cities: it deals with ture is hardly connected at all the small towns flowering out of the countryside. which come It is regional and local in feeling, and very, very American, belong- Toller's plays were mostly writ-out of that new Democratic trans- ing essentially to that coming ten in jail, first when he was sen- Atlantic life. tenced in 1916, for pacifism-after two years at the front and a crip- pling wound,
Best known of his plays were "Man and the Masses," with a pacifist theme, and "Draw the Fires," which dramatised the suf- fering of the German Navy's low- er deck personnel.
VARIETY
I made a list of several novels that are very characteristic. But if you compare these novels you will find there is any amount of variety in American writing.
He was in Switzerland when If you compare Willa Cather's Hitler's rise to power exiled him “A Lost Lady" and "My Antonia" from Germany. The Nazis took | with Sinclair Lewis's "Main away his nationality and confiscat- | Street" and "Babbitt;" or Booth ed his property and he settled in | Tarkington's “Alice Adams" with England.
FIFE LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP
Miss N. Orr, St. Rule, won the Fife ladies' county championship for the third year in succession at Torrie, Dunfermline, yesterday. In the semi-final she beat Mrs. Mur- ray Prain, St. Rule, 2 up; and beat Miss E. Anderson, Leven, in the final 3 and 2. Miss Anderson, in her semi-final tie, defeated Miss | M'Gaw, St. Rule, 3 and 2.
Miss Orr, in her semi-final tie with Mrs. Murray Prain, staged a strong second half recovery. At the turn she was 2 down, but she won the tenth and eleventh holes to square. At the twelfth Miss Orr holed her pitch to secure a half after losing her ball. She took the lead at the thirteenth with a 2, and although Mrs. Murray Prain drew level at the fourteenth, Miss. Orr won the sixteenth and eighteenth to finish 2 up.
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Hemingway's "Men Without Wo- men;" or John Dos Passos' "Forty-second Parallel" with Thornton Wilder's "Heaven's My Destination" you will find there an immense variety, but all stem- ming from the same American root, from this same great new Democracy.
literature? I shouldn't like to say: Is it better than modern English
sometimes I think it is. Perhaps it has more originality, more vitality, but what is certain is that it is en- tirely different.
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