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...wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy...
Last week in Milan was buried Marina Beghe, 93, whose house for many years sheltered an energetic young priest named Achille Ratti, her nephew. Last week Achille Ratti, now 74, mourned his aunt. He had not left Rome since he became Pius XI in 1922, and the day of his aunt's burial was the day he had chosen to issue his second encyclical in this year of Depression. Title: Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by Charity of Christ...
...Salto Mortale," which the three principal personages in this picture perform at frequent intervals. "Salto Mortale" is a giant swing on a revolving platform followed by a jump to a trapeze that has to be released by a ground-lever at exactly the right moment. It is performed by Marina (Anna Sten) and Jim (Reinhold Bernt), an arrogant animal-feeder who volunteers for the act to show Marina how good he is. Jim's best friend, Robby (Adolph Wohlbrueck), pulls the lever. You are aware that presently Jim will fall. When he does, Marina marries him out of sympathy...
Wife of the onetime Ambassador to Japan and very rich, Mrs. Larz Anderson finished the libretto of an opera, Marina, to be produced in Boston, Jan. 11. Music was written by Composer Grace Warner (Mrs. Moses H.) Gulesian...
...only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared all the toils of his arduous campaigns, gives an added note of romance. Yet notwithstanding the epic quality of Mr. Robinson's recent biography, Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" is still the most dramatic and astounding account of the exploits of Hernando Cortez...