Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Drama

The zephyrs of spring could want no more appealing harbinger than "The Unfinished Symphony", a Gaumont-British film based on the life of Franz Schubert. Whether the scene moves through a Viennese pawnshop in 1815 or through the waving fields of the Hungarian, countryside, it is graced by something of that delicacy of touch which made "Der Congress Tanzt." The music is not new, but it has many less ephemeral virtues.

While making his debut before the Viennese nobility at a musical soiree of the Princess Kinsky, Schubert (Hans Jaray) resents the conduct of a Countess who laughs at a tender moment in his B Minor Symphony. He leaves in a rage, later being redeemed from his creditors by the offer of a post as music teacher to the daughters of a Hungarian Count. One of his sylvan tutees (Mareta Eggerth) reveals herself as the lady who laughed, and their subsequent romance bears highly satisfactory fruit of the musical sort.