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...least. Sound and color effects alike leave nothing to be desired. Although a masquerade Ball which is introduced toward the end of the performance seems a needless display of fire-works, as a whole the elaborate scenes are admirably controlled throughout by the able hand of the director, Ludwig Berger. Incidentally, he also shows considerable skill in avoiding the artificial introduction of supposedly spontaneous quartets, a practice which mars so many efforts of the talking screen at the present time...
Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became...
...Victor Berger said, "The chief fruits . . . for us have been Prohibition, the flu and the national debt...
...Berger returned to the House as Representative of the Fifth Wisconsin District. He was defeated for re-election last November. His chief legislative hobbies: 1) Abolition of the Constitution; 2) Substitution of a nationwide referendum for the Senate; 3) Repeal of the 18th Amendment; 4) An old age pension bill; 5) Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones; 6) Unemployment insurance...
Died. Victor Louis Berger, 69, of Milwaukee, longtime (1911?13; 1923?27) Representative (Socialist); in Milwaukee...