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Moving from Austria to Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland and France, So Ends Our Night is a story of the sad flight of the democrats from one brief sanctuary to another as Hitlerism rolled across Europe. When Josef Steiner (Fredric March), a former officer in the German Army, meets young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford), they are under arrest in Vienna, about to be put over the border into Czecho-Slovakia. Without passports, they have no civil rights, can be deported at any time. Without labor permits, they cannot legally earn a living...
...mother, her father, the butler, and the parrot, and in the end you must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked his heels in the real sloppy Viennese fashion, he was heavy-lipped, and appeared always to be unhappy...
Germans ordered French-speaking Lorrainers to choose between evacuating to unoccupied France or being sent to Poland, Germany's Siberia. Almost all of the 800,000 Frenchmen naturally chose France. The Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
...Considered the most important of the Passion Plays, it was first produced in 1634. But in 1932 a troupe of Passion Players emigrated to the U. S. from Lünen, Germany, where they claimed their play had been given ever since 1242. One of them was Josef Meier, seventh-generation Passion Player. He had their drama translated into "American." with a reorganized troupe began acting it in various U. S. towns, and looking for a permanent home to replace...
Last week the Black Hills Players were on their first extended tour (by automobile) of big U. S. cities, as far afield as New Orleans. Into the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium they drew audiences of 4-5,000. Josef Meier, as usual, played the Christus. His wife, a former Chicago girl, Clare Hume, was a handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause...