Dorothy Thompson and German Writers in Defense of Democracy by Karina von Tippelskirch

Author:Karina von Tippelskirch [Tippelskirch, Karina von]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783631675274
Google: Z6c4swEACAAJ
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2017-12-26T20:28:47.602571+00:00

In addition to her journalist friends—John Gunther, Marcel Fodor, and Edgar Mowrer, all with their families—there were writers and others closer to Lewis. Sheean lists British poet Robert Nichols and his wife; Lewis’s literary editor, Alexander S. Frere Reeves, and his fiancé, Patricia Wallace, the daughter of Edgar Wallace; writer Virgilia Peterson and her future husband, Prince Paul Sapieha of Poland. Thompson’s sister Peggy, whom Lewis liked greatly, came with her daughter Pamela; and Sheean suspects that another literary couple, Marcia and Russell Davenport, were also in attendance.488 Other visitors drove up from Vienna, among them Eugenie Schwarzwald. A birthday note from Lewis to Alma Mahler indicates that she too visited, but it is unclear when.489 Durning, in his investigation of the party, adds: American actor Adolphe Menjou, Broadway producer←164 | 165→ Philip Goodman and his wife, Lily Cartun Goodman, and Nicholas Roosevelt, who served as American minister in Hungary before becoming a journalist and writer.490 A guest list that Thompson compiled with Fodor’s help while working on her autobiography in 1960 also has on it “2 Haddows, 1st seeing Vienna + wife American ex Chicago came for day or two; So did the American pianist Richard Buhlig” as well as “Berta??”—most probably the journalist and writer Berta Zuckerkandl who hosted until 1938 a famous salon and whom Thompson saw regularly in Vienna; and lastly was noted Austrian physiologist Berthold Wiesner.491 On Sanders’s list of names are Baron Lajos Hatvany and First Secretary Haddow of the British legation in Vienna, together with his wife.492

The Semmering party taking to the outdoors. Vincent Sheean’s description of this photo reads: “The party in one of its gayer moods. At left, Red Lewis; Virgilia Peterson is the dark-haired young woman in the background between Marcel Fodor (with glasses) and Christa Winsloe (in trench coat and slouch hat); Dorothy is the second passenger on the sled, leaning against Lilian Mowrer. At right with camera is Edgar Mowrer.” Dorothy Thompson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. Reprinted with Permission of McIntosh & Otis, Inc.

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