Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bridal Veils and Mrs. Wurts. To deck the small Church of St. Joseph for the wedding huge tapestries were borrowed from the City of Rome and quantities of flowers brought from the vast gardens of Il Duce's residence just down the street, the Villa Torlonia, where he has lived as the guest of aristocratic Prince Giovanni Torlonia since...
Indeed handsome, the Wurts gardens on the Janiculum Hill which once belonged to the ancient Roman House of Sciarra, are complete with a restored "old villa" and a "new villa" built by Mr. Wurts in the 16th century manner, full of Mr. Wurts' art collection which also goes to the City of Rome...
Bride Edda and her groom were received last week by small King Vittorio Emanuele and large Queen Elena of Italy (with bovine Donna Rachele Mussolini and taurine Signer Benito Mussolini present), at the Royal suburban Villa Savoia (to be given presents...
Hotel Universe, though written by Philip Barry and produced by the Theatre Guild, is certainly an artistic and probably a commercial failure. An elaborate inquiry into the frustrations of persons of unimportance, its action takes place entirely upon the terrace of a villa near Toulon. There is no intermission, a condition which perhaps contributed to the embarrassment of Manhattan firstnight critics in their efforts to render in a phrase the play's "meaning...
...ready for it, he is in good standing with the Soviet Government and last summer was made member of the Central Executive Committee. He is one of the most popular figures in Russia, though he spends most of his time (nine months a year) in Italy, in a villa at Capo di Sorrento rented from an Italian duke. Consumptive most of his life, like many consumptives he has great energy, works from six a. m. till one; in the evening till late at night. The Literary Guild, which has chosen Bystander as its April selection, has invited Author Gorki...