Word: smartest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny from being sentenced...
...this film, Paramount proudly advertises its vivacious actress as the "IT" girl. Never was actress in more desperate need of that celebrated quality. She must portray an Irish-born girl, "gone native" in Hawaii despite the fact that her father, a wealthy planter, entertains at his uproarious carousals the smartest Hawaiian society. Among the constant company is a slim siren of sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses...
...Moderne-for the steamer Ile de France in her interior decor is the work of almost a dozen of the greatest French exponents of this new species of art-an art now available in the U. S. only through one or two of Manhattan's smartest decorators...
Upon the Ile de France have labored Pierre Patou, Lalique (perhaps the most brilliant living worker in glass), Sue et Mare (among the smartest decorators in Paris), the daring landscapist Jaulmes, the sculptor Pommier and other chief exponents of L'Art Moderne. What did Mr. Herrick find they had done upon the Ile de France...
...Pigale some four years ago. Her waffles became a fad, and so many rich waffle eaters washed the golden morsels down with amber champagne that, today, Florence Jones te more purseful than many of her clients. The fact that this handsome Negress, genuinely from Harlem, keeps the smartest boite de nuit* in Paris, was evident again last week, when His Royal Highness, 27-year-old Prince Henry of Britain, strolled into Chez Florence, atop Montmartre, at 3 a. m., with a highly unofficial entourage...