Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture is something of a 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...
Revival at Rome. Almost immediately the stalled engine of Disarmament began chugging again. The world learned more about Hitler's telegram from Mussolini. Whether or not it contained advice on the Hitler speech, it did contain a request for an important conference. Into an airplane climbed Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, a War ace grown beefy, to roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from...
Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
Engaged. Prince Wilhelm, 26, eldest son of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, commoner. Many a monarchist has considered young Wilhelm the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration. Under old Prussian law his marriage would not bar him from the throne, but his children could not succeed him. And the marriage must be sanctioned by the head of the family, who last week in Doorn kept silent, was reported grieved...
Evidently planned to cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...