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Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...
...Hill had his turn at Hollywood. Fox Films sent him to Italy and Spain in 1926 to stage a beauty contest, bring home the winner. In Barcelona he was considering three candidates when he spied a non-contestant on the sidelines, handed her the palm. She is Maria Alba, who played opposite Douglas Fairbanks in Mr. Robinson Crusoe...
...Died. Alba Marshall Ide, 66, shirt-&-collar tycoon (George P. Ide & Co.); in Troy...
Still moving cautiously, the Cortes continued last week the tremendous job of expropriating the great estates of the Grandees of Spain. Despite numerous petitions from Spanish intellectuals that his property be spared because of his great gifts to Spanish education, all estates of the Duque de Alba, Spain's grandest grandee and holder of 30 titles under the monarchy, will be confiscated. Also refused exemption last week were the lands of the Duke of Vitoria, but after formal protest by the British Government one Spanish grandee's lands were spared: those of the Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, Arthur...
...plot enters in the person of a beauteous native girl (Maria Alba) who has run away from marriage on a nearby island. She likes Fairbanks, gets into bed with him. He extricates himself, calls her "cute." Meanwhile Fairbanks' returning friends stop at the nearby island that Maria Alba has left, hire the natives to fake a capture and the beginning of a stake-burning, to be interrupted by the friends. The natives come, find the escaped girl, carry out the stake-burning in earnest. But as Fairbanks' homemade shorts get hot, the monkey turns on the radio, the savages flee...