Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Vicki Baum
![Vicki Baum](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: January 24, 1888
Died: August 29, 1960 (aged 72)
Bio: Hedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 broadway musical.
Known for:
- Grand Hotel (1929)
- Love and Death in Bali (1937)
- Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (1939)
- Hotel Shanghai. (1939)
- The weeping wood (1943)