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...Stage. In private life, Jean Harlow still lives with her mother and the mysterious Marino Bello, now the owner of some mines to which he is usually just going or from which he has just returned. Besides playing golf, Jean Harlow likes swimming which she does every day in her own pool and a parlor game called "Murder Mystery" in which whoever is "it" mentally constructs a crime which the other players try to solve by asking questions in turn. Because a smudge of dust is as visible on her hair as a thumbprint on white paper, she visits...
Hard for U. S. citizens to understand is how such tiny spots of sovereignty as Monaco (8 sq. mi.) and San Marino (38 sq. mi.) are permitted to exist within the great States of France and Italy. Monaco, lying within republican France, is ruled by an autocratic prince. Louis II of the House of Grimaldi. Its chief industry is the gambling casino. San Marino, lying within the Fascist kingdom of Italy, is a sturdy little republic. Its chief industry is postage stamps for collectors. Last week, for the first time in history, San Marino sent to Monaco an envoy, Minister...
...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...