Word: dchen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...Baldur von Schirach-who although only 30 is generally rated high in the Nazi Party as head of the Hitler Youth organization-looked on Germany's marriageable daughters and decided something should be done to make them more attractive. For the blue-skirted, white-bloused young Mädchen who have stomped past him at innumerable parades, he decreed beauty culture...
...would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving was Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came an aria from Verdi's Don Carlos, made vivid by canny restraint. With Sibelius' Die Libelle she proved that she could trill. After spirituals...
...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...