Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Born to a comfortable though dysfunctional Jewish family in ...

If you thought you were productive today, consider that Vicki Baum, a Jewish writer born in Vienna in 1888, wrote over 50 novels in her lifetime. Also, she was a boxer. Born Hedwig Baum to a troubled ...

MARION ALIVE-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2.75). One reviewer amused Vicki Baum by suggesting that nobody in one lifetime could do and see all the things Heroine Marion Sommer did & saw. The facts ...

SHANGHAI ’37—Vicki Baum—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten ...

Miss Baum had not been formerly eager to discuss her Jewish ancestry. “I was born in Austria,” explained Miss Baum, who was in Seattle vacationing with her husband, Richard Lert, former conductor of ...

“Grand Hotel, you think. Most expensive hotel, you think. God knows what marvels you expect from a hotel like this. You will soon know all about it. The whole hotel is only a rotten pub. It is exactly ...

Vicki Baum has written 5 shows including Grand Hotel (Playwright), A Divine Drudge (Playwright), Summer Night (Playwright), At the Grand (Source Material), Grand Hotel (Source Material).