Word: capris
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...Hotel Caruso, where he had gone to telephone. Was his companion Greta Garbo? Were they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...
...permitted to learn almost nothing of all this. They were even told in Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, the Völkischer Beobachter, that Field Marshal von Blomberg was in Berlin with the Führer last week when he was in fact honeymooning at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, Italy. At German frontiers bales of foreign newspapers were snatched off every arriving train, confiscated, destroyed. Fridericus, a typical Nazi Party newspaper, front-paged an editorial keynoting: "How smoothly everything goes in the Reich compared with conditions in America...
...where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...
...delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess...
...month ago a fast-talking, song-publishing (Isle of Capri, Serenade in the Night) Belgian named Peter Maurice Jacques Koch de Gooreynd arrived in Manhattan with a box full of Imperial Chemical's Perspex lenses. He immediately hired a publicity man and a Waldorf-Astoria suite, where he bounced lenses on the table, declared that he could sell eyeglasses for $1 or so a pair, binoculars for $2.50, cameras...