Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wearing a pea-green uniform, many medals and a laced hat Jonkheer H. M. van Haersma de With, new Minister from the Netherlands, arrived at the White House, formally presented his credentials, left with a beaming smile...
Eight Girls in a Boat (Paramount). This picture is not, as advertisements might suggest, a musical comedy about bathing beauties. It is a U. S. imitation of Maedchen in Uniform, showing what happens to Christa (Dorothy Wilson), a schoolgirl who has a romance with a chemistry student (Douglass Montgomery) in a nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry...
Films about girls' boarding schools are usually a puzzle to the Hays organization. Maedchen in Uniform introduced a new and controversial subject. The lesson which Eight Girls in a Boat might teach susceptible minors is that misbehavior is good fun with advantageous consequences. As something which Director Richard Wallace obviously tried to make a work of art, the picture is even more dubious than its moral because it is imitative, sentimental, insincere...
...Washington correspondents to his study. Like a football coach going through skull practice with the squad, he read the budget message he was to send to Congress next day. Then he answered the questions of his digit-dazed friends. The reward of the President's patience was a uniform and intelligent presentation to the public through the Press of his two-year $17,000,000,000 budgets...
Maedchen in Uniform (Bild...