MR BERNARD SHAW.
TIRED OF PUBLIC GAZE
BUYS ISLAND IN LAKE MAGGIORE.
(Australian Press Association.) PARIS, Sept. 4
Mr Bernard Shaw has bought the island Isola S. Joanna, in Lake Maggiore, Italy, in order to escape the gaze of humanity. Henceforth Mr Shaw will occupy tho sole seventeenth century villa for his summer holidays, instead of going to the largest hotel at Stressa, where he became the principal sight of the town. The manager of the hotel stated sadly: “They used to bring hordes in motor coaches to inspect Mr Shaw. Now ho is coming no more.” Thus Stressa has been deprived of its staple industry. Mr Shaw is not the first author to seek island seclusion. Mr Compton MacKenzie, the author of fine works as “Sinister Street,” “Sylvia and Michael,” “Vestal Fire,” owns Jethou, one of the Channel Islands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 7
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