G.B.S. BUYS ISLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 9

G.B.S. BUYS ISLAND

ESCAPE FROM PUBLIC GAZE LAKE MAGGIORE RETREAT (United. I*.A..—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and. 27. Z. Press Association) LONDON, Tuesday.

The well-known British author, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, has bought the island of Isola S. Joanna, Lake Maggiore, Italy, in order to escape occasionally from the gaze of humanity. Henceforth he will occupy alone a 17th century villa on the island in his summer holidays instead of going to the largest hotel at Stressa. Mr. Shaw is not the first author who has sought the seclusion of an island. Mr. Compton Mackenzie owns Jethou, one of the Channel Isles. TO MEET TUNNEY Gene Tnnney’s life ambition to meet Bernard Shaw will shortly be gratified. "Tell Gene that I shall be back in London on September 15, and that I shall be delighted to meet him,” Shaw told the "Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Antibes, near Nice, where the famous author is spending a holiday. “But,” he added, "I must hereby announce that I don’t intend to have six photographers and six reporters present. We shall meet as private gentlemen. I shall discuss boxing, and he shall talk about literature, so we ought to get on fine. "Tunney is very sensible to give Tip boxing now that he intends to get married. Look at what happened to Carpentier and Dempsey! Marriage softened and finished them. “All I know about Tunney’s literary taste is that he disapproves of my early work about boxing, Cashel Byron’s Profession. So do I. This shows that he has some taste, and also that we have something in common.”