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...somewhat shadowed, she allowed, because 'it is much better when it is forbidden.' "Brigitte Heidenrich and Ingeborg Gassau, both 21, first heard the news at 10:30 in the evening, when two G.I.s hollered up to the window of the house out of which the Mädchen were giggling like bobby-soxers. Said one G.I. : 'Hey there, Brigitte, how ya doing, Baby? How about us coming up? It's not verboten any more.' His conversation was a combination of German, French, English and arm motions. A few minutes later the two soldiers ambled through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ban Lifted | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Adam & Eve | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Prouder Beauties | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Colored Contralto | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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