"The Ritz is the highest-priced hotel in Paris. Nine dollars for a single room is the minimum here, all is elegant, chic, gay and sophisticated. The Ritz clientele is cosmopolitan to the nth degree. Diplomats, English nobility, financiers, smart women of society, buyers and actresses of the stage and screen make their reservations months in advance for the spring season. To get good accommodations, at this time of the year, you must be known to the management. If you are known, it doesn't matter about your pedigree or even bank account. Chorus girls with a certain popularity and indigent but well-known journalists are treated with more respect by the staff than wealthy but unknown tourists."