Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome indeed would she be in Rome, where she could help any man do his diplomatic duty. Baltimore and Washington, Berlin and Buenos Aires, Paris and The Hague knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features...
...partner in the banking firm of Robert Garrett & Sons, one of Baltimore's oldest and most trusted houses. He was graduated from Princeton in 1895. At 29, he entered the U. S. foreign service, served as secretary of legation at The Hague, moved on to the embassies at Berlin and Rome. In 1910 he was advanced to ministerial rank, representing the U. S. in Venezuela, later in the Argentine...
...Peace between Russia and China should be consolidated by speedy negotiation. Berlin was tentatively considered the best place for the parley...
...Lewis Stone is the composer who marries a poor widow with three children and who sticks to her in spite of his attraction to a younger woman. Peggy Wood is his wife. Stone leaves her once, then comes home, acknowledges his responsibility. Five years later he goes to Berlin again, sees Leila Hyams again, makes up his mind to be free, goes back to tell his wife what he has decided. While he is at home she dies. There are men and women, humor, sadness and struggle in this picture. It misses being a great picture only because its story...
...Spending less time with more women, he began an active public life. He wrote pamphlets and books on finance and history. One such opus, well-worded, eclectic, seditious, got him appointed "out of harm's way" as diplomat-at-large to the Court of Berlin where he nearly succeeded in embroiling Germany and France, at a time when there was "not a cent in the French treasury." France's poverty, he found, was due to the predatory habits of nobility and clergy. Against them he, a people's deputy in Paris, attempted to unite King and People. Of the despised...