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Eight Girls in a Boat (Paramount). This picture is not, as advertisements might suggest, a musical comedy about bathing beauties. It is a U. S. imitation of Maedchen in Uniform, showing what happens to Christa (Dorothy Wilson), a schoolgirl who has a romance with a chemistry student (Douglass Montgomery) in a nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry...
Films about girls' boarding schools are usually a puzzle to the Hays organization. Maedchen in Uniform introduced a new and controversial subject. The lesson which Eight Girls in a Boat might teach susceptible minors is that misbehavior is good fun with advantageous consequences. As something which Director Richard Wallace obviously tried to make a work of art, the picture is even more dubious than its moral because it is imitative, sentimental, insincere...
...Maedchen in Uniform (Bild...
Poil de Carotte (Pathè-Natan). From European studios have come by far the most searching film studies of childhood and adolescence. While Hollywood was planning some new caprice for Jackie Cooper, Berlin was turning out such cinematic masterpieces as Maedchen in Uniform and Emil und die Detektiv (not yet released in the U. S.). This French production (spoken in French with English subtitles) and the delicate performance of young Robert Lynen measure up to the high German standard...
...photography is beyond reproach and draws the story into a closely integrated film. The use of the camera gives a like-like sequence to the picture which adds greatly to its dramatic force. Although "Maedchen", is a very satisfying production, even for the person who must depend largely on the English titles to understand the dialogue, the enjoyment of the spectators is much enhanced by a knowledge of German...