Word: casa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granted. To Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
Particularly he was told not to miss "the Popenoe place," called the Casa del Capuchino. This was a 300-year-old Spanish house, in ruins since the destruction of Antigua by earthquake in 1773, which had lately been restored by United Fruit Co.'s famed agronomist Dr. Wilson ("Pop") Popenoe and his wife. Guest of Dr. Popenoe for two weeks, Author Adamic decided the house warranted a book. A further incentive arose from his enthusiastic agreement with United Fruit Co.'s Managing Director Samuel Zemurray, who had said of the natives: "They've got something, those people...
Only in the final paragraphs does the reader discover that Author Adamic intended to be more than picturesque. Here he reveals his real purpose: The Casa del Capuchino, says he, represents the world as "really a Ruin, a Mess, a Wreck." Its restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less...
...closer to Mrs. Brady, now a widow who spent her autumns in the U. S.. springs and summers in Italy, Carlsbad, England. Last summer "Bill" Macaulay, an unostentatiously "good"' Catholic, was in his third year as Minister to the Vatican and Mrs. Brady was living in Casa del Sole, the villa near the Vatican which Nicholas Brady' bought years ago. Minister Macaulay asked the woman who had become his friend to be his wife. She reflected, departed for the U. S. and sent him her answer during the ensuing months. Her ''yes," denied by loyal...
...once a week to Secretary of State Pacelli, spends the rest of his time representing his State at Rome's innumerable parties and church ceremonies. Presumably after his marriage Minister Macaulay will, unless perhaps transferred to Washington as Minister, use his modest Rome legation as an office, and Casa del Sole as his official home. But while his lady will take her place in Papal society, she has promised to spend several months each year attending to her various U. S. causes...