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Salt in the Wound. In Newark, N.J., when Pedestrian Louis Bergmann sued for $25,000 damages after being struck by an automobile, a jury decided that Bergmann was actually to blame, should pay $40 for the damage to the vehicle...
...article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining institute, Bergmann-miner. Bergmann, it is true, can mean mountaineer, but only when we are speaking of mountains. In this instance, the term Bergfrauen refers to women who mine...
London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
Already I feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...
...retract any thing. ... It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to pre pare, like anarchists, with the utmost in genuity and malice." But young Isherwood soon discovers that he is going to be taught far more than the ways of the movie. Each day Director Bergmann flies off from the romantic plot of Prater Violet at a thousand tangents...