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Power (Gaumont-British). About the only theme on which the cinema is able to express a definite opinion is the virtue of tolerance. The misfortunes of Jews in Germany supply an apt text for sermons on this subject. An adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger's famed novel Jew Suss, Power lacks both the clarity and the subtlety of its original but it is not, like A Lost Lady, needless vandalism. Angry and outspoken, it derives force from its sincerity and amounts to an elaborate parable of which there are two reels too many...
Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
...date of the annual production of the Menorah societies of Harvard and Radcliffe has just been announced, and will be presented on Thursday and Saturday evenings, April 9 and 11 in the Agassiz theatre at Radcliffe. The play this year will be "Jud Suss," a drama in three acts by Ashley Dukes, which is based on "Power," the historical romance of Leon Feuchtwanger...
...Suss," the author depicts the rise and fall of the power of Joseph Suss. At first merely treasurer to the Duke of Wurtemburg, he gradually increases in power until he finally controls the throne. The Menorah presentation of "Disraeli" in 1929 met with marked success...
...Suss", a dramatization of "Power" by Feuchtwanger, the author depicts the rise and fall of the power of Joseph Suss. At first merely treasurer to the Duke of Wurtemburg, he gradually increases in power until he finally becomes the ruling power behind the throne...