Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-31
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

From Nashua, New Hampshire,
comes the following: A noted singers
recognition of the man to whom he
attributed the decision to take up
concert singing as a profession has
come to light here in the form of a
check for $3.50 received by E. G.
Hood, formerly music director of the
Nashua public schools, from Reinald
Werrenrath, baritone singer. The
check represented the proceeds from
a concert given by Mr.. Werrenrath in
Boston, and he explained that he
wished in this way to show his ap-
probation of Mr. Hoods encourage
ment and influence in starting him
on his career-Mr. Werrenrath, long
since become one of the foremost
American concert singers of his day,
is a son of the late George Werren-
rath, Danish opera singer whose
principal claim to fame was that he
introduced Wagner operas to the
American public some fifty years ago.
The Ibsen Centennial.
In Norwegian-American newspapers
several plans are being discussed for
suitable celebration of the centen-
NAL of the birth of Henrik 1bsen,
famous Norwegian dramatiSt, on
March 90, next year. The plans range
all the way from an erection of
statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago, to
the establishment of a foundation the
proceeds of whose capital should be
used for aiding aspiring dramatists
in working out a career. Also, a plan
has been presented for the issuance
of standard editions of Ibsen's works
in this country.
Strindberg Collection.
The Widener department of the
Harvard university library has ac-
quired 500. volumes of the Swedish
writer, August Strindberg's works in
q number of editions and TRANSACTIONS.
The collection is said to be the most
complete Strindberg library in ex-
istence A large number of Strind-
berg letters and other articles of in
terest to those who study his work
and its influence upon contemporary
literature, are included in the col
lection which came to the library
through the bequest of an American,
Robert Edmund Lee. Strindberg died
in 1912.
Masterwerk Given by Amateurs.
The amtaeur dramatists of the
Little Country Theater maintained in
connection with the North Dakota
School of Agriculture at Fargo last
week presented Per Gynt'', famous
drama by Henrik Ibsen, in a way
that left professional critics quite
astounded. Some notifications and
authorizations had been necessary,
but nothing had been done to serious
ly shorten or ''edit" the play, and the
amateurs acquitted themselves al
most like professionals. Most of the
actors and actresses were Of Norwe-
gian descent.
Nils Asther Coming.
Nils Asther, Swedish screen artist
who in his homeland enjoys an eX-
ceptional reputation, is on his way
to Hollywood, Cal, where he has ac-
cepted a contract offer from the Par
amount firms Originally Mr.. Asther
was an actor on the stage of the
Royal theater in Stockholm, and
later came to Germany as a film
actor. American managers, always
on the lookout for new European ma
terial, watched his work with con-
siderable interest, and the contract
was the natural result of this obser-
walton.
She Halls From SundSyalL
Greta Graal, Saskatchewan film
star. now about to fill an engagement
with a Hollywood concern, has long
been a mystery to audiences in both
Europe and the United States-in
short, wherever her films have been
shown, and while it was generally
suspected that her name was stage
name. no one knew who she really
was. 1t is now announced that she
is Miss Hjerdis Alqvist, daughter
of DIR. E. Alqvist in Sundsvall, Swe-
den. 1t is said that she is considering
plans of remaining permanently In
America
Makes His Debut.
Carl Christian Jensen, a former
student of the University of Mime
sofa. who last fall began serial pub
lication of his autobiography Tin the
Atlantic Monthly now has issued
this work in book form, and critics
refer to ii as one of the most remark
able photographed works that have
appeared in this country for many a
day. Mr.. Jensen is native of Den
mark. and came to this country as
young man, went through varied and
vivid adventures, and now quite sud-
denly has attained renown by writing
about his own experiences in a way
that is characterized as immensely
fascinating
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