Word: bergere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkened room at the University of Jena, Germany, Professor Hans Berger felt the forehead of his assistant carefully. Finding a proper spot, he punctured the skin, shoved a small silver needle through the interstices of the skull until the tip rested against the outer covering of the cerebral cortex. In the back of the head, he inserted a similar needle, attached a galvanometer to both. Then he stroked the assistant's arm with a glass rod, gave him arithmetic problems to solve...
...Burning Heart (Terra). This sound-picture, made in Germany, contains such noises as singing and automobile horns but no talking. It deals with a young composer who falls in love with a girl who tells him she works in a post-office but is really a cabaret singer. Ludwig Berger, who directed The Vagabond King, made this one on one of his trips abroad. Mady Christians, a handsome young woman, good at love-scenes, has the female lead...
...union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor Berger...
...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...