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...Universal Up for Murder, now in production, is given a White House run. To play the part of "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover," Patrolman Tom Jensen received special leave of absence from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington apparently during the Harding era, wise Washingtonians may recognize a certain amount of historical realism: A publisher installs his mistress as the society editor of his newspaper...
...called Whalen Documents of a Red plot in the U. S. were not authenticated...
...Barker's able translation of it in 1912), it has yet some durable qualities- wit, grace, ebullience. Viennese Joseph Schildkraut plays Anatol unevenly, not always bringing him to life. Offstage waltzes by Johann Strauss gave the play authentic Alt Wien atmosphere, which, is almost all it needs. The "plot" is merely, a half-dozen amorous episodes. unconnected except by the busy hero. Best performance is that of Patricia Collinge, subtle and wistful as a lady who might have loved Anatol but never dared. Blonde Miriam Hopkins is raucously amusing as a guzzling showgirl...
...anything that might be called definitely "Anti-German". Most of us I believe felt it rather to be a step in the other direction. For us it seemed more "Anti-War" than anything else. Perhaps also the obvious Americanism of the cast and the international handling of the plot made us forget that the story dealt with German soldiers, in German uniforms, singing occasionally German songs, with what passed as a German setting. For us then it was just "The Horrors of War" without any conscious accent on the nationality of the participators...
...from the German side, at seeing a representation of a perhaps distortedly realistic and gruesome version of the war, stripped of any spark of heroism or glamor, pass as the version typical to all German soldiers. With the film they felt Remarque ceased to be the author of the plot and instead it was a rather caricatured Germany that held the responsibility. With that feeling guiding their thoughts, it is easily conceivable that the brutalities, the panics and fears of the characters as well as the war time pillaging etc. seemed to them an attack at their, and their country...