Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cherries are Ripe" purports to be, and who would gainsay it, a risque, but restrained, comedy of sophisticated Budapest as it acts for a day in the country. The only thing jibing with this reviewer's quaint idea of what is Budapestian is Vilma Banky, and she is accordingly honored only because he read in the program that she was born in those parts. Rod La Roque is not quite up to his movie standard, which was unpleasant enough, anyway...
...plot has some such striking motif as this: The husband of Sybil Stereny (Banky) is hesltant in believing in the single blessedness of her love for him. Count Sandor Bathany, a gay dog from Budapest (Mr. La Roque of Duluth, Minnesota) is regarded by Baron Stereny as one-with-a-way, as one who can take seduction or leave it alone, who regards adultery as a fine art, not a plaything for children. So he asks him to practice his wiles on the Baroness and if successful, to wire him "cherries are ripe." If feminine demureness prove the winner...
With the greatest indignation King Albert and Queen Elisabeth learned last week that the Budapest newspaper Magyarorszag had stated that their Majesty's daughter, Crown Princess Maria José of Italy, already desires a separation...
Last week Landlady Mme Fekety appeared in Budapest's District Court, asked for an ejectment order against Lodger Talor Bela Nager. Objection: "Noisy and dirty habits" of Lupus, Lodger Nager's Alsatian dog. Defending counsel pleaded for closer scrutiny of the facts: "I ask that Lupus, who is now sitting with his ears erect and his tail wagging outside the door, eagerly awaiting a chance to clear his character, be summoned as a witness." The Court smiled shrewdly, rejected the plea. "It is impossible," said the Court, "to administer the oath even to the most intelligent wolf...
Acquitted of fraud in Budapest last week, Bookseller Bischl triumphantly regaled reporters with the story of how he had sold 2,000 copies of a cookbook to women through the mails by advertising: This Book Is Guaranteed to Tell What A Girl Ought To Know Before Marriage...