Word: riviera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin...
UPROOTED - Brand Whitlock - Appleton ($2). You see them wherever you go but especially in Paris and on the Riviera-the uprooted ones, the people without a country, This is not a realistic book about them, for it is full of happy endings, special cases. Yet you can imagine, or you know, what might have befallen a callow, spirited filly like Betty Marsh-whose taste of the wide World during the War made Macochee, Ohio, intolerable and took her back to run her chances among the big hotels, casinos, studios and half-soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen...
...once tall and powerful man, reduced to a spectre by contusions in which gangrene had developed, died last week at Cannes, French Riviera. Fascist bludgeons ? semi-flexible weapons of wood fibre covered with leather and loaded with lead ? killed him, drove his wife insane. These blows were struck many months ago, at Montecatini, in Tuscany (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925). It was only last week that their full effect was felt. Never again will Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Italian "Aventine Opposition," onetime Colonial Minister under Premier Nitti, stand up to oppose Benito Mussolini. The assassins are known...
Europeans, getting word of the furor, were inclined to be scornful of "American hysteria." Emma Calve, living now in retirement on the Riviera, took it more personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work...
...years. It was while lecturing at Columbia in 1915 that he married his first American wife, Miss Henrietta S. Porter of Annapolis, who died in 1919. In 1921 he married Miss Mabel Davison of Manhattan, sister to the late Henry P. Davison, famed banker. He died at Mentone, French Riviera, universally honored among scholars and beloved on two continents for his warm, compelling charm...