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...York, E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers, revealed that Swedish Dr. Axel Munthe, hoping to increase his fund for the establishment of a bird sanctuary on the Island of Capri, had sunk the fat royalties from his long best-selling The Story of San Michele in Kreuger stocks...
DOUGLTS (Norman) Capri; Materials for a Description of the Island. Fine Copy in Dust Wrapper. 4 to. Florence...
...been 56-year-old Gorham Phillips Stevens, a retired architect and active antiquary with a vast knowledge of the broken remains of Greece and Rome. This autumn when the new academicians go to Rome to spend their days measuring cornices and their evenings learning the difference between barolo and capri, Mr. Stevens will still be puttering around the Forum, still available for advice and encouragement, but he will no longer be Director. Last week alumni and trustees of the Academy and assorted architects assembled at the New York Architectural League, to banquet James Monroe Hewlett before sending him to Rome...
...Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated to candid criticism...
...long time was more successful in diagnosing private ailments than the public taste. During the War he worked hard in the Royal Army Medical Corps, was invalided back from East Africa a 60% disability from malaria. After the Armistice he and his wife went to live on Capri, still spend most of their time there. A pianist (his wife is a concert singer), Author Young also composes, has written music for the Songs of Robert Bridges. Mild-mannered, quiet, spare, with a pipe usually in position above an unaggressive chin, Francis Brett Young looks his part: a quite successful, quite...