For it to work, we need to subject you to extreme stress." Afterwards, he was subjected to orture, electric-shocks, cold ice plunges, and merciless beatings for many days to trigger stress and mutation.Jerry visits the perfume shop and asks Lise to go out with him.Lise observes his obnoxious persistence and fends him off: "It""s a pity you don""t have as much charm as you have persistence.In Manhattan as the parade participants were being assembled, the same older white-whiskered, kindly gentleman advised the previously-hired Santa Claus character (Percy Helton) who was on one of the floats and was improperly flicking his whip from Santa""s sleigh.It was shepherded by MGM""s "Boy Wonder" producer Irving Thalberg, although studio head Louis B.Mayer hated the film.This experimental, social commentary movie, with a screenplay by King Vidor and John V.A.Weaver, was remarkably different from other feature films of its time because of its non-Hollywoodish reflection of daily life.