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Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with...
...chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen, one Olga Tschechowa. Despite effective rascality in the other roles, the picture, because its entangled plot is strained, cold, brittle and exotic, has no bludgeoning effect...
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