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...directors of the film have chosen to make it a character sketch of a remarkable person and have been surprisingly successful in attaining their goal. It would have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental change that we have over seen. He proves himself to be one of the foremost artists. it is unfortunate that he has not been cast in films of wider distribution...
...Wandering Jew (Twickenham) presents the cavernous 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...
...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...
...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 a lovable character: yet Veidt makes him so. An orchid, or its eighteenth century equivalent, is certainly...
...thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...