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...Great Dictator," and so on. None of these plots had an adult approach to the complicated processes which will lead us to victory. Little wonder, then, that the average American, fed on such treacle, believes that the Germans will crack when faced with the innocence of an Elisabeth Bergner or a Charlie Chaplin...
...Paris Calling," another anti-Nazi melodrama, presents a half-hour of magnificently directed bombing scenes, before degenerating to the usual mad succession of miracles and cliches. Elizabeth Bergner and Randolph Scott, both rather, hard to look at, provide the clinches...
Paris Calling (Universal) is wee, elfin Elizabeth (Escape Me Never!) Bergner's first Hollywood picture. Now 41, the onetime top actress of the German stage has been making movies in England for the last seven years. Despite Miss Bergner's talents, none of her pictures has greatly pleased U.S. cinemagoers...
...Paris Calling likely to. A melodrama of espionage and counterespionage, its title is the password of a secret shortwave radio station, over which Miss Bergner sends information by piano for decoding in England. Miss Bergner plays second fiddle to a gadgety plot which seldom gives her a chance. When it does, she is artful and pleasing. But melodrama is no frame for her childlike, tragicomic quality...
...Circle of Chalk (produced by the Studio Theatre of the New School for Social Research) was adapted by the late German poet Klabund (Alfred Henschke) from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby...