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On fraile a for
Dramatist Saddened by
Tragic Death of
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DIsAVOWSGAYETY

By PIERRE LOVING
BRIEF letter from Arthur
—1 Schnitzler, who appeared in ihe
news columns recently as a tragie
figure bowed over the deathbed of
a beloved child, served to recall to
me the tender relation between
daughter and father which I had
witnessed in the dramatist’s home
several years ago, although my
friend’s communication touched on
ancther, a less personal matter. As
I glanced at the words I conjured
up the (for me) memorable visit to
his home on Sterwartestrasse in the
fashionable new cottage section of
Vienna, and the admonition, kindlz

and sage, and afterward long pon¬
dered, which he then gave me.
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I had invited the“finest portraitist
Gaud
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of the old Austrian regime,“ as Dr.
Schnitzler has often been salled, to
furnish an introduction to a charming.
racy book of memoirs by Countess Her¬
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler
mynia zur Mühlen, who is asort of run¬
away princess, a niece of Archduke
writer for me: how, far back in the host and asked: Why is it, do yo##
Ferdinand who was assassinated at
eightles and ninetles, he and the late think, that your books have not had ##
Sarajevo. Countess zur Mühlen is al¬
Hugo von Hofmannsthal were closely
steady sale in America?“
ways witty and engaging, acerb and
associated, Von Hofmannsthal writing
•I believe 1 am appreclated in Ameri¬
tnoroughly objective in her revelations
exquisite Parnasslan poetry and
ca.“ he replied, "but so far I do no#
of pre-war Austria and Russia, into
Schnitzler emerging as a realistic satir¬
think I have had a fair chance. But#
which country she married; and a tonc
ist, witty and graceful, softening the
the situation Is about to change. The¬
of indulgent irony permeates her casy
nataralist current which had reached
Amerlcan public is waking up to thes
style. This being so, it was but natural Vienna via Berlin and Paris.
#value of a psychologieal method in thei
to call on Arthur Schnitzler, also gen¬
*T owe my recognition.“ he sald. “totdellneation of character, Of course, 1###
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