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I just got through watching the 1918 German drama Der Alchimist on YouTube, which starred Carl Auen in dual roles as Walter Voss in the current era (1917-1918) and his medieval ancestor Peter Voss who acquires instructions on how to forge high quality brass from an alchemist who he rescues from captivity by three thieves. In the current era, Eva Speyer plays Selma Konski, the unhappily married wife of an older wealthy banker. Selma (Eva) was a former dance hall girl as seen in a brief flashback. Selma desires Walter, who has gone bankrupt due to many unsuccessful attempts to produce high quality brass that’s bendable, and despairs until he finds his ancestor’s papers on how to produce the bendable brass. As Selma will do anything to have Walter, including preventing him from producing the desired brass alloy, so that he will be financially dependent on her through Selma’s husband’s finances. Loo Holl plays Erna, the fiancée of Walter Noss, and Rita Clermont plays Barbara, the wife of Peter Voss in the medieval era of the story.

I’ve been a silent film fan since 1990 after watching the Kevin Brownlow-David Gill documentary series Hollywood. My favorite film star of the era is Miss Lillian Gish ❤️ who I fell in love with at the age of eight, after seeing a still photo of her from the surviving 1913 Biograph two reel drama The Mothering Heart. I’ve been a huge fan of European-Scandinavian silent films since 2018. Especially of the stars who sadly, are mostly forgotten today 😞 (Mary Parker, who was born Magdalena Prohaska, Maria Orska, Olga Belajeff, Wanda Treumann, Dina Gralla, Livia Bronislava, Bernd Aldor and especially Manja Tzatschewa. Did Manja have a younger sister named Tzwetta…?? My favorite silent film is Die keusche Susanne (1926) with Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Ruth Weyher and Hans Junkermann. The silent films I’ve recently watched are Die Hexe von Norderoog (1919) starring Hedda Vernon which is incomplete (44:40). Saxophon Susi (1928) with Anny Ondra, Mary Parker, Gaston Jacquet, Malcolm Tod and Margarete Knupfer and Hans Albers. Ich lebe fur Dich (1929) with Lien Deyers and Wilhelm Dieterle. Der Sonderling (1929) with Karl Vallentin and Dutch beauty Truus van Aalten. Das spreewaldmadel (1928) with Claire Rommer, Fred Salm and Truus van Aalten. Grausige Nachte (1921) with Edith Posca. Kreuzzug des Wiebes (1926) with Conrad Veidt and Maly Delschaft. Dirnentragodie (1927) with Asta Nielsen, Madchen am Kreuz (1929) with Evelyn Holt, Fritz Odemar, Ernst Verebes and Valery Boothby. Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden, with Olaf Fjord, Grete Reinwald, Frida Richard, Iwa Wanja and Carl de Vogt. Drei madchen im Gluck (1929) Hans Brausewetter and Renate Muller, Parisiskor (1928) with Margit Manstad, Fred Louis Lerch, Ruth Weyher and Miles Mander. And two of Lya Mara’s films, both with Harry Liedtke: Die Forsterchristel (1926) and An Der schonen blauen Donau (1928). That’s all for now as my device is about to run out of ink…! ✍️