Word: ernsting
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...Masses. Ernst Tellen, of the new Germany, wrote a play called Masse Mensch. German socialists who had seen their "Christs dying on the barricades" greeted the play with awful zeal. It became the talk of Central Europe. It was translated into English by Poet Untermeyer, produced by the Theatre Guild, and struck its American audience dumb and weary...
Richard Pretlow Ernst, junior U. S. Senator from Kentucky: "Commenting on Senator Couzens' attack on Secretary Mellon's department [see Page 2], I said: 'Every time Secretary Mellon's name was mentioned up went the Senator from Michigan with his tail in the air like a horse at a county fair...
Friday evening in the same hall Ernst von Dohnanyi, famous pianist in a concert which will include Beethoven's Sonata in C-major and selections from Chopin, Brahms and Liszt...
...Marriage Circle. For his sec- ond production here* Ernst Lubitsch, German director, has produced a suave, beautifully finished comedy around the warning: "Don't trust your husband or wife to your best friend!" A Viennese doctor and his wife try it. It's only because the locale is insouciant Vienna that shooting doesn't occur. The physician, rather unwillingly, becomes involved with a lecherous married woman, largely because his wife is jealous of the wrong girl. When the wife discovers how easy it is for a best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored...
...Herr Ernst Lissauer, author of the German war-song Hate, now advises the nation to return to its poets, philosophers, scientists: "Now we have lost our might and our material possessions. There is nothing left but that other Germany, immortal and indestructible with Goethe, Bach and all the big and little prophets which came before and after them." At Hamburg, home of a certain type of sausage, a sausage manufacturer said: "My plant has been besieged day and night by men, women and children seeking work, and I may have to erect a barricade around my place to keep...