Word: fraulein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background...
...after his mother's death, taught him to like to cook, paid for his lessons out of her recipe earnings. Tenor Melchior was well known in Germany in 1925. So, in her own way, was Hannelore Meister, a pretty little stunt cinemactress. One day 105-lb. Fraulein Meister accidentally dropped into Melchior's garden, clutching a parachute. Soon afterward she became Frau Melchior, began her worries over her husband's weight, his costumes, his contracts...
THIS adventure in symbolism carries surprising conviction for a book so frankly labelled "A nInterlude." It is the story of the old Fraulein Emma, her cat, her canary, the sleek Karl, and kind aged Wolfgang...
Williamson's art is the exact opposite of the rationalists with their stressing of "natural causes" and "real" emotions. He uses improbable events to produce psychological reactions which are to all intents and purposes valid. The constant struggling of Fraulein Emma's soul to escape the onslaught of what seem to her substantiations of her belief is accurately portrayed, and so too are the characters of yellow-haired Lieal whom she finds singing in the woods after her canary has died, and the unreliable, dark-haired Karl who comes to Fraulein Emma after the death...
...give sentiment and magic a freer hand, Author Williamson puts his tale in rural Germany. Fraulein Emma, a middle-aged spinster, lives alone in her isolated cottage, with her canary, cat and dog. Years ago her Lover Josef left her practically at the altar; her whole life has become one mnemonic system to keep his memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand...