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I hope you will give these youngsters the same welcome you give your current favorites: Theda Bara, George Arliss, Elmo Lincoln, Clive Brook, Lya De Putti, and Francis X. Bushman.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2019

And Miss De Putti must have done some circulating herself for from each of the guilty gentlemen she receives 20,000 francs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were many members of the audience who found Buck Privates funny.

From Time Magazine Archive

Correggio's Two Putti and two companion studies furnish proof that he was responsible for conceiving the decoration in an arch in Parma's church of St. John the Evangelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Tell me, Putti, why aren’t the British carrying out any bombing raids today?”

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank