Word: schaftspiel
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Died. Paul Lukas, 76, the durable actor with the Continental mien; of heart disease; in Tangier. "Acting is a Gesell-schaftspiel" declared Budapest-born Lukas. "When I speak lines in a play, I mean them; I am talking to someone. It's all real." Brought to America by Producer Adolph Zukor in 1927, Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch...
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