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...into Budapest. He went to the Actors' Academy (Hungarian national theatrical school), served with the Hungarian forces during World War I, made his professional stage debut in Budapest in 1916 as Liliom. Later he was a guest artist under Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna, acted in German UFA films. Paramount's Adolf Zukor saw him on the Budapest stage, got Lukas to move to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in The Night Watch, Strictly Dishonorable, Little Women, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Lady Vanishes. He first played on Broadway in 1937 in A Doll...
After several successful silent pictures filmed by Berlin's largest producer, the UFA Motion Picture company, he was sent through Germany and then throughout Europe making personal appearances. During a two year stay in London, the young actor met Sophie Tucker, whom he now describes as one of his closest friends...
...Russian Gasoline." In Washington last week State Department officials, eager to find out the situation in the Soviet oil fields, conferred with three U. S. petroleum engineers who up to a few weeks ago were working in the Soviet Union at Ufa, Saratov and Grozni in the Caucasus...
...wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well fed and amused. One of the things about her that amuses him most is the way they met. Originally a cinema actress with the old German UFA films, Frau Melchior landed in her future husband's garden in a parachute during the filming of a picture. Since their marriage in 1925 Kleinchen has never missed one of his performances. She accompanies him on all his tours, entertains his guests, manages all his business affairs, passes upon...
...Jack Mylong Muenz, Yiddish Clark Gable of pre-Nazi Germany, leading man in one of Greta Garbo's first starring films (UFA's Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter...