"FAUST."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19213, 20 January 1928, Page 11

"FAUST."

GOUNOD AND BERLIOZ. A moro exnaustivo review of the film "Faußt" will appear in this paper to-mor-row, when readers will be enabled to get a moro comprehensive idea of the geuuino greatness of the treatment of the classic legend, and the equal greatness of Jannings' Mephisto. "Faust" is a story that, dealing as it does with two worlds, demands an unusual manipulation o£ light and darkness, and the camera technique of the picture, is one of its most remarkable and memorable features. It is a thing of beauty; all critics are unanimous on that point—a fino old tale, told with restraint and a sense of dignity; a great deal of the Goethe drama, more of the Gounod drama, more of the Gounod music, and the essential spirit of the tradition still told in the peasant homes of Germany, as welKas its baronial castles on the Rhine. The commerce of the old bearded student, "Faust," with Mephisto, who agrees to give him a certain time of youth in exchange for his soul, is fascinating and dramatic, interspersed with the rejuvenated student's romance with the maiden Marguerite, which Mephisto twists to his own Satanic ends.

"Faust" will be preceded by an operatic prologue from Gouuod's work, and an orchestra of twenty-six players will accompany the picture.