Word: veidt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their...