Word: riviera
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...Negri, 41, oldtime siren of the silents, and Negrophile Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England...
...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
...Riviera castle near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president...
World's End closed with Lanny's departure from the Versailles Conference. Between Two Worlds opens at Bienvenu, a villa on the French Riviera, from which base Lanny can examine Europe of the '20s. He lives there with Beauty, his full-blown, flighty mother, and their friend Kurt, an ex-agent of the Kaiser who composes music and smolders over the bitter treatment of the Fatherland. Now & then Lanny's friend Rick turns up. He had wanted to be a dramatist, but as the decade progresses he becomes a leftish journalist. Not infrequently Father Budd dashes...
...first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...