Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countenance of Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with one knight, attempts to seduce another...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
...Registering wonder, adoration, obeisance, awe, supplication she continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing was a "Sermon in Six Dances" meant to portray "The Coming of the Messiah...
...capital, good and bad, raffendes and schaffendes, "grasping capital" and "creative capital." Often but not always one could tell bad capital by the fact that it was possessed by Jews. Only good capital had any proper place in the Fatherland. Orating along these lines in a beer hall, Messiah Feder converted to his doctrine one Adolf Hitler who received Nazi membership card No. 7. Time & again grateful Disciple Hitler has given public thanks for raffendes and schaffendes. This masterly distinction enabled Nazi spellbinders to preach expropriation of capital (bad) to factory hands, then walk straight into the directors' room...
Among the musical selections are a Bach chorale. "Break Forth. O Beauteous Heavenly Light." numerous carols, including "The First Noel," and "Listen Lordings," by Osgood, an organ prelude. "Now Thank We All Our God," by Karg-Elert, and a postlude. "The Hallelujah Chorus," from Handel's "Messiah...