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Carter drew on this incident to make one of his most effective answers to questions from an audience of some 1,000 people as he held one of his familiar "town meetings" at West Berlin's "Kongress-halle." He noted that "15 years ago when John Kennedy came here, they [the East Germans] covered the wall with a drape. Now at 2:30 a.m. the East Germans whitewashed it and tried to cover the ugly spectacle again. But I don't think anything can hide the deprivation of human rights represented by that wall." The audience, wearing earphones...
...said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which combines the brittle wit of Oscar Wilde with the mellow sentiment of "Der Kongress Tanzt." Old Vienna, with its archdukes and New Vienna with its psychoanalysts and yeast specialists. And in ten minutes the Lunt family is forgotten...
...excellent and agreeable method of absorbing the language as it is spoken, naturally and colloquially, not dismembered into the artificial jargon of class-room instruction. That there is a very real interest in such pictures is satisfyingly shown by the collegiate attendance at the Fine Arts Theatre, where "Der Kongress Tanzt," "Der Grosse Tenor," "Kameradschaft," and "Der Hauptmann vonKoepnick," have played. If these or like films are shown at the Germanic Museum with admission free, a good response may certainly be expected. At the German movies, as at the French, there will be large, enthusiastic, and variegated audiences; the necessary...
...year has elapsed since the first French film was shown, and thus far no steps have been taken to do the same with German films. Though less expensive to produce than Hollywood's, they are on an average, more intelligently acted and directed. "Maedchen in Uniform," "Zwei Herzen," "Kongress Tanzt," "Das Floetenkonzert," and many others show a finesse which is rarely found in American movies. If students are given the opportunity to see German films in college, they will take an interest not only in this art, but in the spoken language as well, which they will have an opportunity...
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