Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Vittorio Emmanuele III nearly always wears the uniform of a general. For a wonder last week His Majesty put on civilian clothes, stepped with Her Majesty and their youngest daughter Princess Maria into a sleek Fiat limousine. It slid down the crushed oyster shell drive of the royal villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal car slipped in with the blinds half drawn. Hucksters cursed the King's chauffeur when...
...Swiss scrubwomen of the League of Nations were excited last week about Russia. As for M. Josef Avenol, the secretive, suspicious Frenchman who last year succeeded popular Sir Eric Drummond as League Secretary General, he became almost human. Secretary Avenol is a recluse who lives in a vast Geneva villa jammed with works of art and historical manuscripts he has picked up on his extensive travels. When Japan and then Germany quit the League, mournful M. Avenol prepared for the worst (TIME, Oct. 23). "The League has lost popularity and prestige," he croaked in one of his rare public statements...
...villa Pessimist Avenol settled down to wait for chaos. He was roused by French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou's project for an Eastern Locarno Pact in which was implicit the idea that Russia as a major signatory should enter the League (TIME, July 23). This week the League Council and Assembly will meet in Geneva and M. Avenol was aquiver with hope and expectation that the League will more than make up for its loss of Japan and Germany by gaining Soviet Russia...
Quickly Dr. Schuschnigg was whisked off by Il Duce to the Villa de Marinis, to sit at a long elaborate luncheon with 14 Fascist bigwigs. At the same time Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, herded foreign correspondents into the Florentine prefecture, repeated over and over again that there would be no discussion of the restoration of Archduke Otto in Austria. He handed out an official communique. Excerpts...
...rival RKO's Little Women at the Exposition, MGM sent Viva Villa!, Fox The World Moves On, Paramount Death Takes a Holiday, Warner Brothers Wonder Bar, United Artists Affairs of Cellini, Universal The Invisible Man and Walt Disney an unnamed short. Though Extase had unquestionably stolen the show last week, the Exposition's first prize remained to be awarded, was expected to go to some less popular film...