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...Potsdam the state school for officers' daughters receives sensitive, 14-year-old Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers...
...play at, if the exposition of its intricacies in "The Command To Love", now at the Plymouth theatre, is to be believed. Indeed, the fate of a treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless to say by the final curtain victory...
...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...
...Your husband has gone down to bathe in the stream," Manuela told the expressionless Vera...
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