Word: marino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marino, Calif., 13 miles from Los Angeles City Hall is the Huntington Library, containing in a very small space one of the most important art collections in the world. But the city fathers of Los Angeles have a museum of their own, an imposing building containing a large collection of prehistoric bones, stuffed fish, crystals, furniture, and a few pictures. Last week it was announced that the Los Angeles Museum will soon place on exhibition a great gallery of waxworks, all of the figures to be clad in original and valuable costumes. Artistically the Los Angeles Museum is ready...
...sunny public square of Marino, a medieval town high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...
...Marino, Calif...
Back from the jungles of Guatemala Joan Lowell (The Cradle of the Deep) brought a 6-year-old half-Indian boy named Marino Valdez. She averred that hostile Indians had captured Marino Valdez, cut off his right hand because he was an "infidel'' (or because they wanted to prevent his ever bearing arms), abandoned him to the jungle, where she found him while shooting films. She said she planned to adopt the waif legally in Manhattan, train him for the diplomatic service...
Engaged. John Jacob Astor III, 20, posthumous son of John Jacob Astor (drowned on S. S. Titanic), $3,000,000 heir on his 21st birthday; and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, Manhattan socialite, daughter of Rome's Prince Marino TorIonia...