Decorating Your Life In Jeans World

Florence gave a part for them before I arrivedwith Thomas Mann, Feuchtwanger and Brecht. Mab seems so desperate for entertainment that she even wanted to accept a lunch invitation at Brechtsbut he cancelled it. But in spite of all this they are awfully nice, and real friends as compared to the Gershwins!. Max and I talked to Ed Wynn who lives here about the possibility of doing a modern version of Molieres “Le medecin malgre lui” as an intimate musical. I think it wouldnt be bad to do     a show with Max now if we find the right idea. What do you think? Cheryl wired that there is a possibility that Mary will play Venus a little longer, since the picture has been postponed anyhow. Darling, dont bother with Tola. He had asked about the house and I had to be nice, but I am sure he wont go there anyhow. Thats about all I can tell you today. Please take care of yourself, rest a lot and take it very easy Yours truuuuuly, Kurt . The director oThe Firebrand of Florence, .?An Murray Anderson  s started out as a dancer and lyricist. Among the musicals he staged are Dearest Enemy $, Jumbo , Two for the Show , and the Ziegfeld Follies of . .     The German dramatist and novelist Lion Feuchtwanger r S collaborated with Weill in Berlin and supposedly gave Brecht the title for Die Dreigroschenoper. He had left Germany in ts .      Ed Wynn  was billed as the “perfect fool” in the Ziegfeld Follies. Later he was nominated for an Academy Award for The Diary of Anne Frank. O WEILL IN LOS ANGELES TO LENYA IN NEW YORK,  APRIL  Letterhead: Hotel BelAir April ,  Traubilein, There isnt much to write, and Ill talk to you anyhow tomorrowbut I dont want you to be without a letter too long, so I write a few lines. I had quite a lazy week, but the weather has been so bad all week that I couldnt go to the beach at all. Mornings I sit around with Max and Mab. He has an interesting idea for a musical for Ed Wynn with whom we spent  evenings. The picture outline is far enough advanced so that I can start on the music some time next week. I am almost sure now that they wont keep me longer than  weeksthank God! There are  interesting show projects: Paul Robeson wired me that he has an idea he wants to discussand Rene Clair wants to do a show.

It wont be long and they will make fun of her. And thatll be the end of her. I am glad your party was a success. They always are. No, you didnt tell me about the party at Schwartzes. But I can easely imagineHans will pick up the whisky and then Pete will pack it. I think we get  bottles. So I will send them. Its a nice present. I hope, you feel better Darling and your flu is gone. I lost weight of course, but everybody has in that heat. Ill put it on fast, as soon as I can start to eat again: Hiiknchen, Hornchen and die Jdeinen gelben HonigkuchenI hope, yo    u dont have to see that Genie genius fig.  Brechtdie Ddnin ist auch dort the Danish woman is also there. Nice quiet family life they will have. I called Rose L.T.F. Lunch Time Follies and she has the music. When I drive in again, Ill pick it up. Its quite safe there. And Darling, apropos ballettshouldnt I call Maurice Speiser and ask him about “Judgment of Paris”? I dont see any reasons, why we should let them have that money. Tudor has nothing to do with it. I think, Speiser is just as big an asswhole as the rest is. Florence told me, he lauses everything up for Hemingway. Write me, whether I should call him. I talked to Bravi today, he was trying to call you. Did he reach you? Mab saw “Venus” again with Hesper and her Mother andshe liked it much better than at the opening night. Isnt she a bore. Anything for a conventional line.Flo took those pictures. I look pretty thin, but die Griibchen the dimples are still visible for you. Well my Darling, thats about all. I am sorry, I cant write you anything exciting. But life on So. Mountain Rd. isnt very exciting as you know but compared with Dragon Seedits an Inferno of excitment.And please give Joe and Richard my love and appologize for not writing. But tell them all my writing abilities are exausted in writing to you. Now good night my honneychild, many kniisschen from your leopard spotted as I look Linnerl  ? new city, hollywood:  Copyrighted material .

 I didnt have the feeling, that Mary was overrun by offers.I am glad you liked S. Foster. I think she would be wounderful and a real discovery. Of course, there is always Margie Brown? I am dying to see the opening of May Wests show Catherine IVas Great on July th and I have to ask Nick whether he can get me a ticket. I got the car creased and it needed a new batterie. The old one was gone. Tomorrow night  am going out with Florence who has the pecuiliar desire to go to all low down night clubsin her condition so she asked me and a friend of hers Jonny Brighton? a detective writer to accompanie her. I am not very keen about it, but its only an evening. She comes out here on Thursday  Friday and I am going with her to Mount Kisko until Tuesday morning. Ill try to get some gasoline from Laiso neighbor, so we can take the Yonkers Ferry and its very near from there.  ? new city, hollywood:  Copyrighted material I think we will have a nice weekend. So Darling you see, its fine lebe here too. The family is alright and its alway lots of traffic in my ice box because theirs is too small to hold all the food for Ritas priceless collection of “glamorboys.” Our morning glory came out and looks beautiful. Saturday evening I went to the Sloanes for dinner. Couldnt eat the lovely duck they had. Very bad. Lee wrote me a very sweet letter and a very funny one about the Speawaks Spewacks. They really should name themselves “Spiewachs ” spitwax. Yesterday one of our litde kittens died. The prittiest one. I brought her to Dr. Goebels in the afternoon, but there was nothing doing. Something wrong with her intestionel. So, Polly will have  more in no time. I havnt heard from Max  Mab. She went to the camp to visit Hesper. Shell call. Darling, did you send the Money to Tonio Selvart. We have to pay  months. June  July. I will write him a letter and try to get out of it by August. If not, then we have to keep it for an other month. But maybe we should keep it anyway. Its cheap and you might need it. Or do you think, its too unconfortable to work in there. I think so. But anyway, we have to pay those  months. So Darling you know, where I am over weekend.

I am leaving now  p.m. because I sleep at the depot tonight night watch. Ill write some more in the morning. Good night, my love! Saturday morning. Just came back from th    e depot. It is raining and I wonder if my guests will come tomorrow. I hope I have a letter from you this afternoon. Lebe, me in Schnaubchen. letters  i  ?  Copyrighted material Three weeks from tomorrow you will be here and Feinlebe begins again. Kniisschensf I think in Cedar Rapids we stayed over night, coming from the Lunts, in a very noisy hotel. Please sign the sugar card at x and send back.  LENYA IN DES MOINES TO WEILL IN NEW CITY,  MAY  Letterhead: Hotel Fort Des Moines  Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday Des Moines Darling, I just got your letter. I cant write much, I am so dogtired not well I havent got more than  hours sleep in a long time. Its just impossible to get any rest in those terrible overcrowed, terrible noisy hotels. I really cant wait any more to get home. Its alright touring, but not under . a week. Otherwise is suicide. But itll be over soon. I am so thoroughly disgusted about that trio LuntsSam, that I almost wish you could just tell them: to go to hell. But I am very much afraid, they will use your ideas and you want hear from them anymore. I dont know, what to say. I have the impression, diat they are terribly afraid of you. I am almost sure, they would be happy, if you wouldnt do it after they got out of you on ideas, what they could. That would be just like them. Its just incredible that Alfred disappeared without talking to you any more and sends you a message trough Jules! Darling, its hard for me to tell you, to forget about the whole thing, nothing good will come out of that “poisonfactory,” because I know, how you would like to work again. But think it over. Even if everything will be straightened out, do you think, theyll let you do, what you really want? If Sam insists on “incidental” music doesnt that show you already very clearly, what he is up to? And those two old “verstellers” hypocrites they wont help you a bit. They are just as afraid as Sam is. I wish, Helen would get something. She wrote you a letter.

The first of them is the period of unknown anliquity, when the cultivation of knowledge began to be an exclusive occupation, and a separate profession among those colleges of priests, who, whether established on the banks of llie Ganges, the Euphrates, or the Nile, appear to have been Ihe earliest instructors of the human species. These guardians of infant science combined it wilh religion, and thereby rendered it venerable in Ihe eyes of their untutored contemporaries; hut, at llie same time, enslaved it lo their own superstition, and for ever stopped ils progress at the point where it was bound lo opinions held to be sacred and immutable. The useful institution of a distinct body of teachers, thus degenerated into a rigorous exclusion of all other men from learning; and, according to the general system of Eastern society, the lirsl division of mental labour was followed by an hereditary monopoly. Impenetrable barriers on every side surrounded knowledge, w hich hindered il equally from spreading or advancing.The second memorable period, is the emancipation of knowledge in Greece. It is now vain to enquire by w hat sleps llie Egyptian and Phoenician colonists, who carried the arts of civil life to the Pelasgic savages, were gradually led lo forsake the peculiar institutions of their forefathers, while Ihey preserved the inventions and manners by which society had been improved. The great revolution, which gave lo civilisation a freer and more llexiblc form among the Hellenic nation, is anterior to llie dawn of authentic history. At Ihe moment of their lirst appearance lo us, the Eastern monopolies were overthrow n ; philosophy bad thrown off Ihe fetters of superstition; learning was accessible lo all men; there was scarcely any separate, still less any hereditary, priesthood; and knowledge occasionally descended lo some individual among that degraded body of slaves, which by the unhappy constitution of their society, contained Ihe greater part of mankind. Every faculty of human nature w as excited lo the most intense avidity; and every part of scicnce presented a boundless prospect of improvement. The progress of know ledge,  longer checked as in Asia by internal causes, was exposed to danger only from the political causes which affected the quiet and safety of the nations by which it was cultivated, and which finally overthrew the rude governments and feeble independence of these splendid, but turbulent and insecure communities.

The rejection of the doctrine of “Species” must be considered by Mr. Stewart as still more remarkable lhan it is by us. In his view of things, Occam thus escaped a fundamental error, which has led the greatest philosophers of modern times into scepticism. But as we cannot think that the terms, “Image, Likeness,” etc. were ever steadily applied to ideas by modern philosophers, otherwise lhan as metaphors used for illustration, so we regard their exclusion only in the very respectable light of a reform in philosophical language, with a view lo prevent figurative expressions from being, however transiently, confounded with real things.Richard Suisse!, ” The famous English mathematician of the middle age,” was a follower of Occam, the persecution and defence of whose philosophy was Ihe principal occupation of the speculative during the fourteenth century; soon after the end of which it was lost in the Lutheran controversies, which were in some degree ils issue. On a general review of this period, Roger Bacon and Suisse! should probably be considered rather as philosophers of lie scholastic age than schoolmen : Aquinas is the most clear, sober, and practical of school philosophers; Scotus, from qualities nol of the same nature, most perfectly represents Ihe genius and cliaractcr of that philosophy ; and Occam w as llie reformer who undermined ils foundations, and prepared llie way for ils destruction.The arrival of the Grecian refugees in Italy, being Ihe most memorable event which distinguishes any moment in the early progress of modern literature, has been commonly considered as the era of Ihe revival of letters: and Ihe expression may be justifiable, if we bear in mind Ihe previous prcparalion of Italy for classical learning ; the men of genius who had, before that period, cultivated most modern languages ; the superior efficacy of printing ; lie Reformation ; and probably the discovery of America ; and if we also hesitate, whether Ihe preservation of Constantinople, and the education of western sludenls in her schools, might not have contributed to quicken the literary progress of Europe as much as the destruction and emigration which actually occurred.

 It is llie renovation of life and joy to all animated beings, that constitutes Ihis great jubilee of nature: the young of animals bursting into existence,the simple and universal pleasures which are diffused by the mere temperature of the air, and the profusion of sustenance,the pairing of birds,the chccrful resumption of rustic toils,Ihe great alleviation of all the miseries of poverty and sickness,our sympathy w ith llie young life, and the promise and the hazards of the vegetable creation,the solemn, yet cheering, impression of Ihe constancy of Nature to her great periods of renovation,and the hopes that dart spontaneously forward inlo the new circle of exertions and enjoymenls that is opened up by her hand and her example. Such are somo of” the conceptions that are forced upon us by the appearances of reluming Spring, and lhat seem to account for the emotions of delight with which these ap|earances are hailed, by every mind endowed with any degree of sensibility, somew hat better than the brightness of the colours, or the agreeableness of the smells, thai are then presented lo our senses.They are kindred conceptions that constitute all Ihe beauly of childhood. The forms and colours that are peculiar lo lhat age, are not necessarily or absolutely beautiful in themselves; for, in a grown person, llie same forms and colours would be either ludicrous or disgusting. It is their indestructible connexion with the engaging ideas of innocence,of careless gaiety,of unsuspecting confidence;made still more tender and attractive by the recollection of helplessness, and blameless and happy ignorance,of the anxious affection that watches over all their ways,and of the hopes and fears that seek to pierce futurity, for those who have neither fears, nor cares, nor anxieties for themselves. These few illustrations will probably be sufficient to give our readers a general conception of the character and the grounds of that theory of beauty which we think is established in the work before us. They are all examples, it will be observed, of the first and most important connexion which we think may be established between external objects and Ihe sentiments or emotions of the mind; or cases, in which the visible phenomena are the natural and universal accompaniments of the emotion, and are consequently capable of reviving that emotion, in some degree, in the breast of every beholder. If tho tenor of those illustrations has been such as to make any impression in favour of the general theory, we conceive that it must be very greatly confirmed by the slightest consideration of the second class of cases, or those in which the external object is not Ihe natural and necessary, but only the occasional, oraccidenlal, concomitant of the emotion which it recals. In the former instances, some conceplion of beauty seems to be inseparable from the appearance of the objects.

Il is one step towards a true explanation of any phenomenon, to expose the fallacy of an erroneous one; and though the contemplation of our failures may render us more diffident of success, it will probably leach us some lessons that arc far from diminishing our chance of obtaining it. To the charge of multiplying unnecessarily the original and instinctive principles of our nature, Mr. Stewart has not made quite so satisfactory an answer. The greater part of what he says, indeed, upon this subject, is rather an apology for Dr. Reid than a complete justification of him. In his classification of the active powers, he admits lhat Dr. Reid has multiplied, without necessity, the number of our original affections, and that, in the other parts of his doctrine, he has manifested a leaning to the same extreme.lhat the phrase was unluckily chosen, and lhat it lias not always been employed with pcrfect accuracy, either by Dr. Reid or his followers; but ho maintains, lhat the greater part of the truths which Dr. Reid has referred to Ibis authority, arc in reality originally and unaccountably impressed on the human understanding, and arc necessarily implied in the greater part of ils operations. These, he says, may be better denominated, ” Fundamental laws of belief;” and he exemplifies them by such propositions as the following : “I am the same person loday lhat I was yesterday.The material world has a real existence.The future course of nature will resemble the past.” We shall have occasion immediately lo offer a few observations on some of Ihese propositions.With Ihese observations Mr. Stewart concludes his defence of Dr. Reid’s philosophy : but we cannot help thinking that there was room for a farther vindication, and lhat some objections may be stated lo the system in question, as formidable as any of those which Mr. Stewart has endeavoured to obviate. We shall allude very shortly to those that appear the most obvious and important. Dr. Reid’s great achievement was undoubtedly the subversion of the ideal system, or the confutation of that hypothesis which represents the immediate objects of the mind in perception, as certain images or pictures of external objects conveyed by the senses to the sensorium. This part of his task, il is now generally admitted, that he has performed wilh exemplary diligence and complete success : but we are by no means so entirely satislied wilh the uses he has attempted lo make of his victory. After considering the subject wilh some attention, we must confess that we have nol been able to perceive how the destruction of the ideal theory can be held as a demonstration of Ihe real existence of matter, or a confutation of all those reasonings which have brought into question the popular faith upon Ibis subject.

At which time would Mr. Soulhey pronounce the constitution mora secure ;in , when Laud prescnled Ibis Report lo Charles, or now, when thousands of meetings openly collect millions of dissenters, when designs against the tithes are openly avowed, when books, allacking not only the Establishment, but he first principles of Christianity, are openly sold in the streets? The signs of discontent, he tells us, are stronger in England now than in France when the Slates General met; and hence he would have us infer that a revolution like lhat of France may be at hand. Does he not know that the danger of states is lo be estimaled, not by what breaks out of Ihe public mind, but by what slays in it? Can he conceive any thing more terrible than Ihe situation of a government which rules without apprehension over a people of hypocriteswhich is Haltered by the press, and cursed in the inner chamberswhich exults in the attachment and obedience of ils subjects, and know s not thai those subjects are leagued againsl     in a freemasonry of haired, the sign of which is every day conveyed in the glance of ten thousand eyes, the pressure of ten Ihousand bauds, and the lone of ten Ihousand voices? Profound and ingenious policy! Instead of curing ihe tlisease, to remove Ihose symptoms by w hich alone ils nature can be know n  To leave the serpent his deadly sting, and deprive him only of his warning rattle !When the people w hom Charles had so assiduously trained in the good way, had rewarded his paternal care by culling oil’his head, a new kind of training came into fashion. Another government arose, which, like the former, considered religion as ils surest basis, and the religious discipline of he people as its first duly. Sanguinary laws were enacted againsl libertinism: profane pictures were burned ; drapery w as put on indecorous statutes; the theatres were shut up fastdays were numerous.

” As the sight of the rainbow should bring to remembrance, what a woeful, what a fearful desolation, once came upon a wicked world, whose foundation was overflown with a flood ! So the sacramental importance, now instamped by the will of God upon the rainbow, should be acknowledged with us. It should be considered as a sign and a seal of a covenant, which the great God has made, that He will not have this world, though a sinful one, drowned any more, nor his church in the world. Upon the view of the admirable meteor, bow proper this doxology;Blessed be our gracious, merciful, and long suffering Lord; who hath sworn, that the waters of Noah shall go over the earth no more! But then, how can we forget the glorious Christ, who is our head in the covenant; and about whose hat voice, tremble to be in ill terms with a God, who with a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm, can immediately crush all that is opposed to him.”Of all the meteors both the fiery and the watery, the poet has well acknowledged ;Who sees bright meteors in the liquid skies,Has the great works of God before his eyes.His powerful thunder, who can understand? Yet our philosophy will a little try to see and say something of it.The account of thunder, given by Dr. Hook, is this : The atmosphere of the earth abounds with nitrous particles of a spirituous nature, which are every where carried along with it. Besides which sort of particles, there are alo others raised up into the air, which may be somewhat of the nature of sulphureous, unctious, and other combustible bodies. We see spirits ot wine, turpentine, camphire, and almost all other combustible bodies, will by heat be rarefied into the form of air, or smoke, and be raised up into the air. All these, if they have a sufficient degree of heat, will catch fire, and be turned into flame, from the nitrous parts of the air mixing with them ; as it has been proved by thousands of experiments. There are also other sorts of such steams, that arise from subterraneous and mineral bodies ; which only by their coming to mix with the nitre of the air, though they have no sensible heat in them, will so ferment and act upon one another, as to produce an actual flame.