The movie was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson.

Loos returned to California just as Griffith who wanted to make longer films, was leaving Triangle, and she joined director and future husband John Emerson for a string of successful Douglas Fairbanks films.

During this time Loos, Fairbanks and Emerson collaborated well together and Loos was getting as much publicity as either Lillian Gish or Pickford.

Anita Loos and John Emerson by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair ( American magazine 1913-1936 ) | Vanity Fair, July 1928

Loos, Emerson and fellow writer Frances Marion, migrated to New York as a group, Loos and Emerson sharing a leased mansion in Great Neck, Long Island.

Loos desperately wanted Marion as chaperone, as she found herself attracted to Emerson.

Later Loos would claim that Emerson took all of the money and most of the credit for projects, even though his contribution usually consisted of observing from bed as Loos worked.

When William Randolph Hearst offered Loos a contract to write a picture for his mistress Marion Davies, Loos included Emerson in the deal, though his presence was unnecessary.

The Schenck studios filmed in a New York warehouse and Loos and Emerson occupied suites at the Algonquin.

Emerson had convinced a devastated Loos that he needed to take a break from his marriage once a week.

Emerson, perhaps foreseeing the success of Blondes as a threat to his control over Loos, first attempted to suppress its publication, and then merely settled on a personal dedication.

At the last minute Emerson feigned being unwell and insisted Loos continue alone.

Emerson finally joined Loos in London, and to keep his spirits up she took him to the theatre every night.

When But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was published in 1927, Emerson proposed another European vacation, and went ahead of Loos to visit medical specialists.

Since Emerson had his own entertainment, Loos was often in the company of Beaton or Mizner.

When they returned to New York in the spring of 1930, Emerson expressed his unhappiness at her inattention, and the guilt-ridden Loos would spend much more time alone.

Devastated, Loos offered him a divorce ; Emerson refused and suggested they live apart, with him giving her a suitable " allowance ".

Now happy and successful, Loos moved to an apartment in Hollywood, where she was unexpectedly and unpleasantly joined by Emerson.

At MGM Loos happily turned out scripts ; however, she frequently had to use Emerson as a conduit to communicate with directors and other executives who balked at dealing with a woman on equal footing.

When Loos came down with a sinus attack in Vienna, she and the ear, nose and throat specialist who was treating her came up with a method of " fixing " Emerson's hypochondria.

The ECJ first articulated the doctrine of direct effect in the case of Van Gend en Loos, the European Court of Justice laid down the criteria ( commonly referred to as the " Van Gend criteria ") for establishing direct effect.

On 25 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos at Hill 70, prior to an assault on enemy trenches and during the worst of the bombardment, Piper Laidlaw, seeing that his company was shaken with the effects of gas, with complete disregard for danger, mounted the parapet and, marching up and down, played his company out of the trench.

In September 1915 the Entente allies launched another offensive, with the French attacking at Champagne and the British at Loos.

In 1925, on the train to Hollywood for another Talmadge picture, Loos began to write a sketch of Mencken and his vacant lady friends that would later become Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

In 1950 Loos began writing A Mouse is Born, another novel, and when it was safely in the hands of the publisher she left for the continent, her first trip to Europe in twenty years.

In 1959, Loos opened another Colette adaptation, Chéri, with Kim Stanley and Horst Buchholz in the title role, but it ran for only two months.

In recent years, Loos has experienced another kind of destruction: that of the mining towns ( about 1000 homes have been demolished in the recent past ) as the population has left seeking work elsewhere.

In Van Gend en Loos it was decided that a citizen was able to enforce a right granted by European Community legislation against the state-the question of whether rights could be enforced against another citizen was not addressed.

The picture, completed in May 1932 was a smash and established Harlow as a star and put Loos once again in the front rank of screenwriters.

The design theories of Adolf Loos found resonance with Mies, particularly the ideas of eradication of the superficial and unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied ornament with the straightforward display of materials and forms.

Altenberg was a contemporary of Karl Kraus, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler, Gustav Klimt, and Adolf Loos, with whom he had a very close relationship.

* September 25 – October 14 – WWI: Battle of Loos: British forces take the French town of Loos but with substantial casualties and are unable to press their advantage.

* In March 1938, Anita Loos contacted Aldous Huxley, then recently moved to Hollywood, saying she would put him in touch with MGM for a writing contract.

It was under this challenging title that in 1913 the essay was translated into French and did not appear in German until 1929: " The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects ", Loos proclaimed, linking the optimistic sense of the linear and upward progress of cultures with the contemporary vogue for applying evolution to cultural contexts.

One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia, while during the Battle of Loos ( June – December 1915 ) a battalion of the 8th Gurkhas fought to the last man, hurling themselves time after time against the weight of the German defences, and in the words of the Indian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks, "... found its Valhalla ".

A year after the death of his son at Loos, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called En-Dor ( 1916 ), about communicating with the dead.

During the First World War French had an affair with Mrs Winifred Bennett, the wife of a British diplomat and former mistress of one of his own officers killed at Loos.

Clifford has since represented various clients, including: David Copperfield ; Mohamed Al-Fayed ; Simon Cowell ; brain-damaged boxer Michael Watson ; Liverpool left-wing politician Derek Hatton, for whom Clifford created an affair in order to change his image ; former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson ; Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who was imprisoned for fatally shooting a burglar ; Rebecca Loos, when she negotiated with the press about her alleged affair with England football captain David Beckham ; Cheryl Cole ; Celebrity Big Brother 2007 winner Shilpa Shetty ; and Jade Goody, in the period of the reality star's cervical cancer and death.

After graduating, she, among other projects, worked together with her mentor Adolf Loos, planning residential estates for World War I invalids and veterans.

In 1892, when Loos was four years old, the family moved to San Francisco, where Beers Loos bought the newspaper The Dramatic Event, a veiled version of the UK's Police Gazette, with money Minerva borrowed from her father.

Together they would sit on the pier, fishing and making friends with the locals, feeding into Loos ' lifelong fascination with lowlifes and loose women.

Eventually Beers Loos ' spendthrift ways caught up with them, and in 1903, Beers Loos took an offer to manage a theater company in San Diego.

Afterwards, accompanied by her mother, Anita joined the film colony in Hollywood where Griffith put Loos on the payroll for Triangle Film Corporation at $ 75 a week with a bonus for every produced script, perhaps making her the first " staff writer ".

Instead of returning to Hollywood, Loos spent the fall of 1916 in New York and met with Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair.

Loos was soon spending time with Elsa Maxwell and Dorothy Gordon " Dickie " Fellows.