Undoing of Leni

A specialist in the private life of Adolf Hitler is the lurid daily Paris-Soir, which last month published details of the Fuehrer's supposed romance with the old-time cinemactress, Pola Negri (TIME, April 26). This week Paris-Soir was at it again, this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features out of them. These films have not yet been released.

Recently, according to Paris-Soir, svelte Cinemactress Riefenstahl attended a reception at the home of Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick. Also present was bitter little Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi and chief propagandist.

"I am leaving this place," snapped Dr. Goebbels, "because there is a person here who is not Aryan. I have with me documents showing that Leni Riefenstahl had non-Aryan grandparents."

Minister Frick at once hustled Actress Riefenstahl from the room. When she returned to her apartment she found a detail of Brownshirts already at the door. All her furniture was already piled in a waiting truck. Obviously the whole thing had been staged. Half prostrate, Leni Riefenstahl was hustled to a quiet nearby hotel. What has since become of her, Paris-Soir did not venture to say.

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