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...Power," the story of Jew Suss (Conrad Veidt) and a race oppressed, makes a strong bid for high honors as a second feature. Paying with wealth, self-respect and happiness as the price for power, Mr. Veidt presents a forceful character beautifully portrayed...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Substitute Letter Carrier Suss S. Scalo was held in U. S. District Court on the charge that when he found he did not have time to deliver mail he burnt it to save red tape...
...films centering about the struggle of an Hebrew to raise himself above the despised position which an ever intolerant society has stamped upon the race, but there never has been one which possessed the strength and beauty which "Power" presents. After a plodding, unceasing rise to power, the Jew Suss learns that he is not really Hebraic, his father having been a prominent Christian soldier. This discovery does not break his resolve, and to the bitter end, through a mass of trials enough to overwhelm any but the superhuman, Suss holds to his adopted race. His predominance has become...
...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 in a burst of histrionic magnificence rarely the fortune of the screen to present...
...century, which has been the background for so many of our recent films, is again the scene of entertainment at the Fine Arts Theatre this week. The recent trend of events in Germany cannot but increase the interest that is aroused by "Power," also called in book-form, "Jew Suss." Suss as depicted by Conrad Veldt is a pioneer of Jewish emancipation in Germany. Veidt does full justice to the part, which unless capably played, is not an entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly...