The ABC of Love (Das Liebes-ABC). Cross-dressing came naturally to Nielsen. "In aperformance that brings to mind both Chaplin and Max Linder, Nielsen plays astrong-willed girl determined to transform her Caspar Milquetoast beau into aman-of-the-world, even if she has to become a man-of-the-world to do it°.Had shedecided to concentrate on comedy rather than tragedy and melodrama, Nielsen mightwell have developed into one of the finest comediennes of her age." (R. C.Allen) Magnus Stifter (Germany, 1916).With Asta Nielsen, Ludwig Trautmann, MagnusStifter. (35mm)Dora Brandes. With money from her former admirer, Dora furthers thepolitical career of her new lover, a journalist. As in other films in which theAsta character crosses love (woman's world) and politics (man's), she loses thelove of both men, whose allegiance is to the political.