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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 8

Herr Sudermann, whose new play has just been staged in Berlin, has been writing plays for twenty years, producing one or more annually. Before taking up his dramatic work to was.a journalist, and also published three or four novels. Along with Hauptmann he is the chief living German playwright. One of his earliest worts, staged nineteen years ago, 13 known to English playgoers under the title of "Magda." Tho new piny appears to contain , nething calculated to shock the conservative frequenters of the Berlin Theatre Royal. It depicts the primitive conditions of life wliicb prevailed on tho Baltic coast in the days of the Order of Teutonic Knighis before the coming of the Hohenzollorns. Horr Sudermaan should write well on such a theme, for lie is himself tin Bast Prussian, and was educated at Blbinff&nd Xilai, and aiter.mEila rtndiad at Si^L