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...play, "Jud Suss" has been chosen for this year's production by the joint Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, it was announced yesterday. It will be presented in the early part of April...
...Josef Suss. The revenge plot, which occurred so often in early drama, is no longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss...
POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The handsome, malevolent features of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer leer through hazy German history. A moneylender, fawning but audacious, he makes himself indispensable to Duke Karl Alexander of Swabia, the peace of whose hairy bosom depends only upon war, wine and women. As finance minister, Suss rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time...