Word: matuschek
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...million people to the streets of Berlin every summer, took place for the last time there in 2006 because of a dispute over who should pay for picking up the mounds of trash. "There's a difficult relationship between the city and the club scene," says Michael Matuschek, who worked as a DJ at Tresor during its glory years. But the clubbers can and do get their revenge: Matuschek says several promoters specialize in throwing illicit parties wherever they...
...Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...
From long experience, audiences know at first blush that the high-minded young man with whom Clerk Klara Novak (Mar garet Sullavan) is corresponding through a lonely-hearts hookup is her detested fellow clerk, Kralik (James Stewart). They also know that Hugo Matuschek is all wrong in suspecting Kralik of mis conduct with Mrs. Matuschek. The culprit, as everybody else can see, is oily Clerk Vadas. The outcome is equally certain...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
Good shot: Felix Bressart, as a timid clerk afraid for his job, repeatedly dodging out of sight whenever Boss Matuschek asks for an opinion...
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