Word: lolo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antipathy of the two old women is inspired in part by Frau Grill's beauty. The Baroness has others to guard: children and a husband. Lolo, a daughter, swims beyond her strength to be rescued and kissed by lovely Frau Grill. The Baron, informed of this kiss, pays a call of thanks for the rescue, gets snubbed. Hilmar, Lolo's fiance, attaches himself to Frau Grill. It is too much. The two old women make the family leave...
...beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was wife of a hoary old ambassador. Then people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband...