Word: maedchen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girls in Uniform (by Christa Winsloe; Sidney Phillips, producer). First it was a novel, then a play, then a film. Now Playwright Winsloe's Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck...
...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...
Died. Donald van Rensselaer Freeman, 29, managing editor of Vanity Fair since 1926; of a fractured skull received when his roadster hit a traffic stanchion; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was responsible for the presence in the U. S. of the great German film Maedchen in Uniform (TIME, Oct. 3) for which he wrote the U. S. subtitles...
...Maedchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan), last spring's most discussed European cinema, was rejected by the New York State Board of Censors on the ground that it too intimately explored female adolescence. U. S. sponsors finally convinced the censors it was a story of new Germany v. old Germany. They added English subtitles and presented...