Word: leni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented their invitations...
...years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Games film (four hours running time) and to Vittorio Mussolini's Luciano Serra, Pilota, an ecstatic drama of Italian wings over Ethiopia. Walt Disney's world favorite, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was favored with a special Hors Concours (out of competition) Medal...
Back in Europe after a U. S. visit, German Cinema Tsarina Leni Riefenstahl announced that she had had a nice time, except in Hollywood, where she was "trailed continuously by two detectives," who interfered with her walks and "a couple of times" were actually rude...
...Chase (H. R. Sokal Film) soars over broad slopes and frowning crags in the Austrian Tyrol with shiny-nosed Leni Riefenstahl and world-famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider in the lead. Last week "non-Aryan" Skimeister Schneider was under Nazi lock & key in his native Austria. Fräulein Riefenstahl, last spring supposed to have been replaced in Hitler favor by Cinemactress Pola Negri (TIME, June 21), was meanwhile considered reestablished in her Fü:hrer's platonic affections...
...attempted emulsion of ballet technique and hot-cha failed to mix. St. Louis Women (music by famed W. C. Handy) was straight hot-cha, and might have been done better at the Cotton Club. Encouraged by first-nighters' applause, softspoken, boyish-faced von Grona and his blonde wife Leni decided that their Negro ballet had a great future...