Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrated. William R. Wilkerson's Hollywood Reporter, Talmud of the cinema industry, lavishly called him last week "the greatest piece of motion picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being a prizefighter for two fights. He held 18 jobs, lost them all without losing his ambition...
...Tower Wurts, relict of George Washington Wurts, onetime (1862-82) U. S. Secretary of Legation at Florence and Rome, sister of onetime (1902-08) U. S. Ambassador to Germany Charlemagne Tower; in Lucerne. An aging, dim, tremendously "important" personage in Roman society, she gave the city her magnificently landscaped Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank...
Sailors on the British warships Glorious and Coventry anchored under a bluff near Cannes, France, looked up & saw the villa of retired U. S. Actress Maxine Elliott in flames. Landing parties rowed in, fought the fire for two hours. Loss...
...with diamonds & pearls, worth $200,000. Two years later on one of his frequent visits to Germany the Grand Duke of Hesse gave him the cordon of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous in recognition of his hearty German goodness. Ten days later he died of dropsy at "Villa Lily" in Langenschwal-bach on the hills above Wiesbaden...
Next Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. may be Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, member of four of the great Roman congregations and of the Pontifical Commission for Russia. A new $400,000 Renaissance villa is being built for the U. S. Delegate on Washington's Embassy Row (Massachusetts Ave.). It will contain living quarters, chancery offices, a splendorous chapel, a unit (with separate entrance) for entertainments. Washington hostesses know better than to attempt to lionize the Pope's representative or to get invited by him for tea or dinner. No woman is ever included among the Apostolic...