Word: leni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler last year awarded to an actress of comparable popularity exclusive permission to make cinema recordings of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin next summer as part of a propaganda epic which will be shown later to German cinemaddicts throughout the Fatherland. Except to those who are Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl's rivals in the cinema industry, this seemed to Nazis an entirely appropriate gesture...
Fine Arts: "The Blue Light"--Directed by Leni Riefenstahl, this picture is known particularly for its outstanding and remarkable photography. The dialogue is in Italian and German, with English titles. There is no cast, and the local color is supplied by natives of the Italian Tyrol, where the picture was taken...
...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...
Marching out amid cheers, the Congress then resolved part of itself into a Culture Chamber and Orator Hitler spoke for a time on Kultur. The only female in his audience was beauteous Leni Riefenstahl. the Realmleader's cinema favorite.* Perspiring freely as he wrestled with his subject, the Realmleader cried: "To be German means to be clear! The Greeks of ancient Athens were akin to the National Socialists of today. Only a pure race can create high art. National Socialism is a reaction against Jewish intellectualism. It is a return to intuition. . . . Literature has done more than anything else...