[LEN-E] Time Magazine: Capable if not superlative acting by Leni

[Ron Koster]

Gee, it's been slow around here! ;)

Well, that's partially my own fault, I guess. I've just been very 
busy with various other things for a while now, but hopefully next 
month I should be able to get back into "Leni stuff" again.

In the meantime, just this morning I discovered that Time Magazine 
has an online searchable archive of articles/covers going way, way back...

http://www.time.com/time/archive/

...including numerous (if not innumerable) articles about Leni. It's 
definitely worth checking out (and you can narrow your search to 
whatever years, or what type of articles, are of particular interest).

The earliest one they would appear to have would be a film review from 1927...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737111,00.html

On page 2 (as displayed in the non-print version of that article) 
you'll find a review of "Peaks of Destiny" -- interestingly, it's not 
referring to Fanck's earlier film of that name, however, but rather 
"The Holy Mountain", and it's actually quite a good review, 
concluding with: "Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, 
capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker 
and Ernst Peterson, make the picture a valuable and exciting 
experiment in spectacle and a worthy product of the German UFA, noted 
for its success in experimenting."

In addition to articles, one can also search for covers, and you can 
see the Feb. 17, 1936 cover that featured Leni...

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19360217,00.html

...and, back to the articles search, one can find a letter-to-the 
editor in a subsequent issue about that cover...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847672,00.html

...where the reader/writer states: "Your cover (Feb. 17, Hitler's 
Leni Riefenstahl) beat the cables easily in vividness of depiction, 
but you made it extremely difficult for persons in the Puritan 
highlands to keep their minds on their work."

Funny...!

Ron ;)

Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com
Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org
Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca