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GIRL ALONE-Christa Winsloe-Farrar & Rinehart...
Eight Girls in a Boat (Paramount). This picture is not, as advertisements might suggest, a musical comedy about bathing beauties. It is a U. S. imitation of Maedchen in Uniform, showing what happens to Christa (Dorothy Wilson), a schoolgirl who has a romance with a chemistry student (Douglass Montgomery) in a nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry...
Girls in Uniform (by Christa Winsloe; Sidney Phillips, producer). First it was a novel, then a play, then a film. Now Playwright Winsloe's Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck...
...same latrine as the soldiers with venereal disease; though no physical violence was ever done to him, many of the religious objectors were beaten, tied to bars of cells, forced to stand in the sun till they collapsed. Religious objectors were of many creeds: Mennonites. Molokans, Christa-delphians, Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Quakers, members of the Church of God, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Apostolic Faith, International Bible Students, House of David. Says Author Meyer: though the U. S. Government dealt more humanely with pacifists than did any other nation, 31 religious objectors at Fort Douglas, Arizona, were not released until...
...Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First Elf), Christa Tordy (Helena). Miss Pinchot never once stuttered...