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...were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that prisoners taken by the rebels were ordered to stand motionless for hours and shot when they finally moved. Most intriguing to the French investigator was the conduct of a "jealous Red Don Juan" finally captured by soldiers after he had sated his lust on numerous nuns...
...picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed by the pen of man who speaks from the abyssmal depths of soul-stirring experience. As Jew Suss, Conrad Veidt outdoes himself...
...Child life is blighted and its future obscured and darkened by broken homes, broken in many instances by the selfish ness and lust of conscienceless and godless parents. This unchecked and growing evil, largely indulged in by people of wealth and position, destroys the sanctity of marriage and gives to it the character of legalized prostitution. A wicked and adulterous generation makes no reckoning of the disasters and misfortunes that inevitably attend its evil and lustful ways...
...much for civilized Rochester. Fear and horror and the lust for blood were in its cry: "Shoot the lion! Shoot the lion! Shoot the lion...
...have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest living composer...