- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- The Man Who Asked for Onions
- Vienna
- Love and Other Distractions
- An Artist’s Life
- The World, the Flesh, and William A. Brady
- In Uniform
- Over There
- Out There
- Photographing a Thought
- A Genuine Genius
- Three Sheets to the Wind
- The Ascent of Paramount
- The City of Dreadful Night
- A Great Man
- Came the Dawn
- The Lady with the Legs
- Falling in Love Again
- The Woman All Women Want to See
- Spies
- Talk like a Train
- Come Early, Stay Late
- Russian Dolls
- Moscow Rules
- The End of the Affair
- Cardboard Continental
- Far Cathay
- The Claudius Trap
- Family Ties
- The War at Home
- Americana
- The Seven Bad Years
- Because I Am a Poet
- The Lion Is Loose
- “Why Have I Not Been Given a Woman?”
- Acknowledgments
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
The Man Who Asked for Onions
The Man Who Asked for Onions
- Chapter:
- (p.1) The Man Who Asked for Onions
- Source:
- Von Sternberg
- Author(s):
John Baxter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Von Sternberg asked for some onions when he visited the famous Emerald Room of the Australia Hotel, the most prestigious hotel in Sydney, if not the most modern. He boasted to his friends that when he was in California, he always ate onions and garlic to cure things. In every direction of the Hotel, tables covered in linen, ironed glossy with starch, extended to infinity. Out of sight a fountain played, while marble nymphs observed the guests covertly from a jungle of potted ferns. Each plate, bowl, dish, cup, and saucer bore the hotel's emblem. The flatware, scratched to dullness by generations of use, had the heaviness of tools—soup spoons like shovels, knives as hefty as trowels.
Keywords: Emerald Room, Sydney, linen, emblem, trowels
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- The Man Who Asked for Onions
- Vienna
- Love and Other Distractions
- An Artist’s Life
- The World, the Flesh, and William A. Brady
- In Uniform
- Over There
- Out There
- Photographing a Thought
- A Genuine Genius
- Three Sheets to the Wind
- The Ascent of Paramount
- The City of Dreadful Night
- A Great Man
- Came the Dawn
- The Lady with the Legs
- Falling in Love Again
- The Woman All Women Want to See
- Spies
- Talk like a Train
- Come Early, Stay Late
- Russian Dolls
- Moscow Rules
- The End of the Affair
- Cardboard Continental
- Far Cathay
- The Claudius Trap
- Family Ties
- The War at Home
- Americana
- The Seven Bad Years
- Because I Am a Poet
- The Lion Is Loose
- “Why Have I Not Been Given a Woman?”
- Acknowledgments
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
