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Author-Artist Lynd Ward has woodcut an effective book. His pictures may not please artists, but they will hold the novel-reader, eager for a story. In parts the treatment is strongly reminiscent of German cinema-e.g.. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But the book is a tour de force; novelists will have little competition from such "novels...
Dominating Neubabelsberg, as no producer is able to dominate Hollywood, are the studios of the mighty UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), chief among European cinema companies. Here were filmed such popular and artistic successes as Variety, The Last Laugh, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And from Neubabelsberg, last week, there journeyed many a cinemactor, many a director, to the Berlin premiere of UFA's latest production, The Homecoming...
...cinema producers-content for nine-tenths of the year with dispensing sentimental froth and such subtitles as: "Morning came, but the heart of the beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel...
Between Worlds is another German film (notwithstanding its "European" label). It is not as good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this...