Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downbeat. In Springfield, Ill., Symphony Conductor Constantine Johns, raising his arms for the opening chord of Faust, dislocated his back, spent the next six weeks in the hospital...
...Italy has the heaviest schedule: Columbia plans to make four more opera adaptations there (next: Faust), Edward Small is completing Cagliostro, 20th Century-Fox will film Prince of Foxes...
...speech, producing an effect that few other movies have paralleled. The visual effects do not try any labored realism, but concentrate on significant details or on impressionistic views of the city, and the implications become those of timelessness as well as reality. Victor McLaglen is the Judas, the Faust, and although his story relates closely to the particular environment, he is the most important factor himself, and could be transplanted to almost any time or place...
Author Morgan's villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...
Last week, Ezio and Claudia were back in San Francisco together. This time, Claudia occupied a star's dressing room, sang the long and difficult part of Marguerite to her father's Mephistopheles in the San Francisco Opera Association's performance of Faust. Greying, 55-year-old Ezio had rehearsed her privately until she was note-and letter-perfect. He wanted to be sure: "I am not one to enthuse. I won't overrate anything. You never can say it is in the bag, until it is, is that...