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The Rendezvous. So flamboyant was the melodrama of this singular narrative of the downtrodden royal party of Russia that certain commentators took it to be satire.
Said William E. Borah: « The hotbed and noisy rendezvous of lawlessness, of cynical defiance to the Eighteenth Amendment are among those of social standing. . . . The ' red ' sits in his darkly lighted room around his poorly laden table and denounced those provisions of the Constitution placed there to...
" Don't think Montmartre is a rendezvous of the French. When they go there it is to meet foreigners.
1903. Orango, youthful village butcher, just turned cowpuncher, enters an adobe hut in Chihuahua, Mexico, rendezvous of the smart sporting fraternity. He sits down to a quiet game. Presently an Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango...
There is a notable scene in The Rendezvous (expensive New York cafe) where Gilda Gray "she shakes and she jiggles ev'ry mussil of her body" for 25c., one quarter, the twentieth part of what it costs to see her do the same thing in the Ziegfeld Follies.