Word: frauleins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this vehicle for Germanic supernaturalism? now absurdly childish, now weirdly beautiful...
...long the debate continued. Fraulein Ruth Fischer, Communist, called the Reichstag "a masquerade of capitalistic dictatorship" and asserted that "only in Russia are the interests of the laboring classes honestly represented." Herr Graefe, Freedom Party (extreme Monarchists), said his party favored "passive resistance [to France] even if it leads to leaving Berlin in ashes. But," he continued, turning to the Moderates and Communists, "if you want blood you may have it!" General Ludendorff was seen to nod assent. Herr Graefe then referred admiringly to the General and the Communists roared: "Throw...
...Young Girl's Diary, anonymous, is not a novel, but the diary of an anonymous German fraulein a little before and after the age of puberty. As a pathological and psychological document it is of some importance?it should certainly impress on anybody who reads it the importance of proper sex education for the young? but the average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only...
...Married. Fraulein Charlotte Tauscher, only daughter of Mme. Johanna Gadski Tauscher, opera singer, and Hans Tauscher, to Ernst Adolphus Busch, grandnephew of the late Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, at Berlin...
...Married. Fraulein Amalie Ebert, only daughter of the President of Germany, to Dr. Wilhelm Jaenecke, attache of the German Foreign Office, at Berlin. Frau Jaenecke plans to continue her studies to qualify herself as a librarian at the municipal library at Charlottenburg...