Word: frauleins
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...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...
Every now and then a cinema comes from across the sea to break up the monotony of a steady fare of Hollywood banalities, which restores our faith and interest in motion pictures. Such a picture is "The Blue Light" now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre, the work of Fraulein Leni Riefenstahl, now much in the public eye because of her intimate friendship with Der Fuehrer...
...against the sublime grandeur of the Dolomites, this simple folk-tale becomes a motion picture of heroic proportions. Every scene is beautifully photographed, yet without obvious pretension. The roles are competently handled by Fraulein Riefenstahl, who plays the mountain girl, and a group of native Tyroleans. There is so little dialogue as to obviate any necessity for familiarity with German or Italian. "The Blue Light" is a truly distinguished and unusual film and one that would provide a refreshing evening to any picturegoer...
...over the London papers was a beauteous Fraulein by the name of Emma Kant. Her claim upon German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch is that she is not only "Miss Germany" but also the grandniece of that gloomy Teuton, Philosopher Immanuel Kant. Would not the German Ambassador consent to be one of the judges...
General Kurt Daleuge: The World is hostile to Germany only because it is jealous of the German people for possessing Adolf Hitler. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia (after wrecking his sports car last week and going to a hospital, as did the fraulein with him): In the higher sense of true Prussianism there is no more genuine Prussian than our Reichsfuhrer [Realmleader], Adolf Hitler [who is Austrian by birth]. . . . The Prussian idea of the state and its eternal ethics has been spread by him throughout all Germany. . . . Hindenburg was the incarnation of the highest ideals. In Hitler...