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...company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British for UFA production, strives, like most of Director Erich Pommer's productions, to be as small and delicate as possible. Its sly and trivial grace is becoming to the miniature charms of Lilian Harvey, who was too often lost in the exaggerations of Hollywood productions. Good shot: an audience...
...adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith won the Cinema Academy prize in 1932. His script of his favorite novel, The Brothers Karamazov (which was never produced because Producer Goldwyn lost a copyright battle with UFA), was considered even better...
...Frederick, Duke of Uppland, Chevalier of the Order of the Seraphim. As soon as this moody youth had finished his military service he began hovering on the edge of the arts, as decorator, actor, designer of silver cocktail sets and finally as a fairly able assistant cinema director with UFA in Berlin. On the UFA lot he met a little blonde girl named Erika Patzek, born a Pole and a Catholic, who loved to dance and drive fast in her own orange-colored sport roadster. Her father had done very well in post-War Berlin. Starting as a boss teamster...
...string of newspapers which included four in Berlin (Lokal-Anzeiger, Der Tag, Der Montag, Berliner Nachtausgabe), an advertising agency and Germany's No. 1 Cinema Studio, UFA, gave Dr. Hugenberg a tight hold on German public opinion. Through T. U. he deluged the provincial Press with his own brand of propaganda. Since ousting him from the Cabinet last June the Hitler Government has regarded Dr. Hugenberg as a potential enemy, suspected him of favoring a restoration of the Hohenzollerns. Yet one surprising thing about last week's merger was that the new organization, which will be officially...
...smile which are acceptable substitutes for acting ability. His voice, which loses none of its quality in recording, is so pleasant that you do not object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough to buy the U. S. rights...