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Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak. Her name, the name of Hungary's most irrepressible actress, rang merrily across innumerable little tables. Women spoke of her tolerantly (a high compliment) as they sat at Gerbeaud's tasting his famed sherbets, sucking and licking off dainty fingers the thick, pasty sweets of Hungary. Old men, taking their mud baths at the St. Gellert, quaked in merriment over the trial of Sari Fedak, quaked until reproving attendants...
Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...
Dialogue ensued between the Court and Sari, while a packed courtroom chuckled its own interpretations...
That question seemed unnecessary. Sari Fedak was divorced (1925) from Hungary's most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors...
Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them...