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Leaving for the island of Stromboli to make a film with Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman was puzzled when an interviewer asked what the picture would cost. Between $300,000 and $500,000, she thought, but "I'm poor on numbers. I always forget a zero or add a zero where it counts most...
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...
...Manchester, England (1895), black-haired Louis Golding started writing at 6, got a story published at 9. He left Oxford, where he was a leading esthete, to fight in Macedonia, returned to take his degree. Since then, on account of his health, he has traveled much, has slept on Stromboli's quaking sides, on beds of rosemary in Corfu. He speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish, knows Greek and Arabic. He lecture-toured the U. S. in 1927. Other novels: Forward from Babylon, Seacoast of Bohemia, Day of Atonement, Store of Ladies, The Miracle Boy, Give Up Your Lovers...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...
...Perret, of Naples, Italy, who has for the past six years made a special study of volcanics, having lived on the sides of Vesuvius, Aetna, and Stromboli during their recent eruptions, will give an illustrated lecture on volcanoes and volcanic action at a special meeting of the Geological Conference in the Geological Museum this afternoon at 4 o'clock. After his introductory statements, the subject will be open for discussion in which it is expected that Professor Jaggar and Professor Daly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Lane of Tufts College, and the professors of the Harvard Geological Department...