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...banned in October 1933 together with all other parties that would not subscribe to the principles of democracy. Since then Berlin's foreign policy has grown wiser and shrewder. There suddenly appeared on Czechoslovakia's political horizon an earnest, near-sighted German-speaking gymnasium instructor named Konrad Henlein, organizer of a party known as the Sudetendeutsch Heimat Front. Ceaselessly he has repeated that he takes no orders from Adolf Hitler, has no intention of preaching political union with Germany. But S. H. F. meetings use all the Nazi slogans and devices. The party has attracted dozens of German...
...events. On the day that she is released from a Budapest orphanage, a friendly waiter (Reginald Owen) promises to smuggle her into a ball. At the ball, she meets an amorous plutocrat (Frank Morgan) whose fluttery advances she stalls off only by saying she is married. When Herr Konrad promises to make her husband immediately and fantastically rich, Luisa realizes her golden opportunity. She seizes a telephone book, mumbles an incantation, shuts her eyes and places her finger on the name of Dr. Max Sporum (Herbert Marshall...
...beard shaved off and presented Luisa Ginglebusher with a fox neckpiece, there is nothing much left in The Good Fairy except the scene in which Luisa explains to her three puzzled admirers what she has been up to, straightens out a tangled situation by marrying Dr. Sporum with Herr Konrad for best...
...Hollywood's newly discovered ability to scour without scratching, it emerges as a slight comedy which is no less wise for being less cynical and one which is performed with exactly the right blend of nervousness and imperturbability by all the members of its cast. Good shot: Herr Konrad giving his order for supper to Luisa's waiter, who thinks she has no business in a private dining room...
...Acknowledged discoverer of x-rays, in 1895, was Wilhelm Konrad von Rentgen (1845?...