Word: caf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prowling on, the camera grinder paused before the tiny Café Masalli, since 1705, a snug topers' haven. Within, a paunchy Hungarian was munching a sandwich, playing with a pretzel, drinking beer. He too consented to emerge and pose. He was Francis Molnar, most famed of Hungarian dramatists, illustrious in Manhattan as the author of Liliom, and The Swan...
...Sinclair Lewis, Lady Diana Manners, Fritzi Massary, "the German Sarah Bernhardt," strolled past the café, were filmed en passant. James Speyer, famed Manhattan banker, followed with Mrs. Joseph Medill ("Chicago Tribune") Patterson (née Higinbotham...
Last week License sported, as is her wont every June, on her favorite bank of the Seine, the left one. All one afternoon the cafés and bars along the Boulevard de Montparnasse filled slowly with semi-nude men and women, daubed and stained, and greasepainted brown, black, crimson, orange, vermilion, blue and green, with headdresses, beads and anklets intended to indicate that they were Aztecs of ancient Mexico. They were students, and eager friends* of students, and joyful models of students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were...
Talking Machines. When the cinema, café dancings, low-rate orchestra entertainments and radio decoyed people from the musical whirrings of their household phonographs, the Vector Talking Machine officials developed a new machine, the orthophonic; advertised so well that within two weeks of first announcement orders of $20,000,000 came in. People liked the machine, liked the prices. So the stockholders in meeting last week learned that their factory production-schedule the first quarter of this year was the highest in history, that their biggest business year lies before them...
...following, the Chief of the Penitentiary Department was shot dead in front of a caf...