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...known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany in 1930 or 1931, and in this country...
Died. Christa Winsloe Homolka, 24, Hungarian actress and novelist (Maedchen in Uniform), formerly the Baroness Vally Hatvany; of blood poisoning; in London...
Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
Cinemaddicts remember Maedchen in Uniform as one of the distinguished German productions of 1932, a delicately realistic picture of life in a girls' boarding school. In book form it became The Child Manuela, was Christa Winsloe's first novel. Though not a formal sequel, Girl Alone is a further chronicle of maidenly adventure. Baroness Hatvany (Christa Winsloe's married name) is a prize-winning European sculptress as well as a writer, and this tale of regretful nubility in pre-War Munich bears many an earmark of first-hand experience...
...tragic Nymph whose constancy is the most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...