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Between bomb blasts, through the blackout, Berliners stumbled to their cinemas last week to get a Nazi-eye view of what the unspeakable British have been up to all these years. With noisy and immense satisfaction they saw beefy, aging Emil Jannings play Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, South Africa's famed Boer statesman, in Tobis Film's production Ohm Krüger. This Nazi rewrite of the Boer War for home consumption is pure propaganda-reminiscent of The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, and other thrillers tossed off during World War I to raise...
...ger jerks along with the customary lack of continuity of the German film. Its Nazi-drawn characters are either snow-white or jet-black. Krüger is a simple, modest, wise Boer elder statesman. Cecil Rhodes (Ferdinand Marian) is a rich, conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens...
...little interest in the British Fleet; 3) Great Britain is not a democracy; 4) if Hitler can't even cross the English Channel, he can't cross the Atlantic; 5) U. S. concern with fifth columnists is hysteria; 6) Ger many is not "an international outlaw"; 7) the U. S. didn't help Loyalist Spain, therefore shouldn't help any other country; 8) the U. S. Government is deceiving the electorate...
Insured for $1,019,000, Chrysler's art show contained 89 Picassos, 31 Légers, 15 Braques, 13 Hans Arps, enough Derains, Matisses, de Chiricos and Rouaults to fill several galleries. It was the biggest and Bourbonniest modern art show Virginia had ever seen, and many a colonel and drawling belle murmured soft but outspoken remarks like "baffling," "Don't see why it's art anyway," "Goddamndest thing I ever saw." Only artist present who was represented in the show was greying, thickset Fernand Léger, who couldn't be lionized because almost nobody...
Alexis Léger, French poet (Anabase), for seven years the trusted brain of the French Foreign Office, was discovered in a Manhattan hotel, a refugee. His plans: to make a thorough study of the U. S., write his memoirs. Said he, looking pensively out over the city: "I am avoiding all publicity as well as social or political activities...