Word: carrara
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...open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting upward from a base of equal height. Pulling the ripcord, Italy's Dictator revealed a 300-ton obelisk of Carrara marble embellished with no inscription except nine letters in high relief-MUSSOLINI. Apropos a gymnastic exhibition by both sexes which next took place in the stadium, Signer Leonardo Arpinati, Undersecretary of Interior and head of the Italian Olympic Committee, revealed last week the result of experiments at Bologna by Italian doctors...
Always on display in the art gallery in Manhattan's Grand Central Station is a selection of fauns, nymphs, Indians and babies holding fish, designed by orthodox sculptors. Another statue went on view there last week. It was a white Carrara marble figure of a nude young woman, seated and gazing reflectively at her left foot. In front of the figure was a black marble reflecting pool, behind it cedar trees and potted plants. Called Reverie, it attracted great attention not only because it was pleasant to the eye but also because its creator, a grandmother, is the wife...
Guido Murray Fabbricotti (Commendatore della Corona d'Ttalia, Centauro of the Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
Marblemen explained: U. S. architects and builders, seeking magnificence, have turned from the useful, plebeian Carrara to the red Levanto, the green Tinos, to the monotones Botticina and Hauteville. Year by year, Carrara has fallen deeper into decorative disrepute, has been relegated to bathrooms, has disappeared from the yards of the importers. And last winter, patriot Fascists jumped the price of Carrara to prohibitive heights. U. S. importers protested, cancelled all orders...
...centuries, marble and Carrara have been synonymous in the hills of Italy's Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head...