Word: viertel
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...does so, she falls in love with the soldier, as the audience has foreseen. He is wildly agitated when he discovers her duplicity. But, also as the audience has foreseen, he finally comes to appreciate her sterling qualities. Then an automobile accident restores his sight. Perfunctory direction by Berthold Viertel, and the wooden way in which Ralph Bellamy plays the soldier make The Magnificent Lie seem trite and unmagnificent. The role of the cabaret girl was perhaps selected for Ruth Chatterton because it gave her a chance to display her overestimated versatility: she uses stock French mannerisms, hisses...
...dress and personal cleanliness are rare traits of the German student, the odor that one perceives on entering, at the end of the hour, a large room that has been filled with students can better be imagined than described. to be sure, during the pause of the "Akademisches Viertel" the doors and some of the windows are thrown open for a few minutes; yet during that time the bad air is not all removed. And it sometimes really seems as though the German student, were he quite by his own countrymen without the presence of foreigners, would willingly and with...