Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyceum in illustration of a lecture on "Choral Music in America" to be given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director. The Glee Club will collaborate with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the regular Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, when it will sing the "Faust Symphony," by Liszt. The next appearance of the Glee Club with the Boston Orchestra will be on Sunday, March 27, when the two organizations will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society to perform again the "Mass in B-Minor," by Bach. The scores employed by the singers during the rehearsals...
...Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk of the cinema coming of age. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" gave the impetus for a brilliant series of European films which included Murneau's "Dracula" (1922) and "Faust," and Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New." To the imaginative force of "Caligari," Eisenstein added his technique of film assembly, or "montage," in which short bits of seemingly unrelated scenes are intercut and interposed to produce a visual counterpoint...
...unfortunate for the student that "Faust" is read in the second semester. Why Professor Walz--who gives a course in the Faust legend (Comp. Lit. 8)--does not treat Goethe's masterpiece in his half year is a mystery. This is the manner in which "Faust" is studied: One member of the class reads a dozen lines in German (three-fourths of the time this is poorly done); then the instructor reads a translation of the lines either from Bayard Taylor or Anne Swannick! No comment follows this performance and no attempt is made to explain or give an exposition...
...Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
...OTTO FAUST Antler, N. Dak. The copies for sale are backed by no printed matter...