Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid these difficulties, candidate-picking began. First in the field against Old Paul was Communist Ernst Thalmann, whom the late New York World used to call "Germany's Red Napoleon." His worst enemies, the German Fascists, conceded last week that leather-lunged Comrade Thalmann, once a Hamburg stevedore and later a sailor, would get at least 6,000,000 votes. Some 38,000,000 ballots will be cast...
...obvious problem which confronted Director Ernst Lubitsch was how to make moving pictures tell a story in which not the actions of the characters but the dark violence of their thoughts was the important matter. His dialog writers did not help him much and there are probably actors who would have done better as the remorseful Frenchman than Phillips Holmes, though the part is well adapted to Holmes's technique of behaving as though in a quandary at all times. Lionel Barrymore as the father of the dead German acts magnificently and so far out of his ordinary manner that...
...Berlin shopkeeper, Ernst Lubitsch was made to work in his father's store while he learned enough about acting to get a job with Max Reinhardt. In 1913 he performed in cinema for the first time, liked it so much he never went back to the stage. He went to Hollywood to direct Mary Pickford in Rosita nine years ago, after making himself and Pola Negri famous with Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night and Du Barry (called Passion...
...light-television apparatus, developed by Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, derives its carrier wave from a high-intensity arc light. The carrier wave is modulated by the Alexanderson scanning device which translates a picture or scene into electricity (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). As with the Taylor system, anyone who has the proper receiving apparatus and can see the Alexanderson beam, can also see what the television apparatus is seeing...
...Ernst Glaessel, 53, head of Roland Line before it was merged with North German Lloyd, was elected chairman of the board of management of N. G. L., succeeding the late Dr. Carl J. Stimming...