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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monotone because it uses the German institution for the education of Prussian army officers' daughters as the only background for the whole film. With the faithfulness of attention to detail which characterizes German cinema production. "Maedchen in Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness, while the sternold principal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/9/1933 | See Source »

There is not much plot to most men's lives, and the ending is invariably "un-happy." But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even one individual career. Since the main outline is universally identical, writers do not concern themselves so much with total similarities as with partial differences. Author Fallada's case-history is of a young German couple whose developing plight is echoed everywhere today throughout the western world; but his Teutonic tones give the well-known story a kind of foreign freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germans | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Both the performance of Colin Clive and Miss Hepburn are tremendously sincere. Each maintains the high standard of emotional continuity demanded by the plot to a finish which though unfortunately crude in form in none the less powerful. Because it deals with a type of character usually avoided by the movies and because the author has attempted realism instead of melodramas, "Christopher Strong" may not provoke the popularity of a more blatant production. Katharine Hepburn, nevertheless, remains a starting and brilliant figure. With the aid of Colin Clive she succeeds in making "Christopher Strong" a fine piece of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...that fact and moved to forestall it by ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops would no longer fight for him. Later General Goded changed his mind, was placed on the retired list. Just to be sure, he was exiled last week to the Canary Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Guillotine | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Many a Manhattan architect out of a job sat down at his drawing board last month to plot a setting for legal beer. His incentive was a contest of the Architects' Emergency Committee. Last week the designs for taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's Industrial Mart, an idea showroom for the hotel & restaurant trade. One Peter Copeland, an architect who has not paid his rent in two months, won the first prize for both cafes and taprooms. His cafe had a modernistic oval bar in blue and white. One Kate Hall won first prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bar Art | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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