Jessie Vihrog – MRQE

Hurra – ein Junge!

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The German playwrighting team of Arnold and Bach were the collective Neil Simon of their time, turning out one successful stage comedy after another. Hurra! Ein Junge (Hurrah! A Boy!) is a typical Arnold-Bach melange of infidelity, mistaken identity, and punctured pomposity. The situations surrounding the birth of the heroine’s child sparks a maelstrom of slapstick, coming to a hilarious head just a few moments before the final fadeout. Critics found the picture “grotesque”; audiences found it side-splittingly funny. The best performances were rendered by Ralph A. Roberts and Max Adelbert, two veterans of many a previous Arnold-Bach collaboration.

Le Miroir aux alouettes

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.

Annette im Paradies

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Annette (Ursula Grabley) finds herself an overnight millionairess when she inherits a thriving factory town. Rather than assume ownership by right of blood, Annette elects to learn the factory’s business from the ground up, thus she takes a job as typist for chairman-of-the-board Bertuch (Max Guelstorff). The remainder of the story is a romantic tug of war as Annette is courted by both Bertuch and humble employee Siebert (Hans Soenker). The musical numbers seem to have been put together on an assembly line and accordingly are performed in the most perfunctory manner possible. Not one of the better German tunefests of the 1930s, Annette Im Paradies still managed to turn a neat profit.