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...Gerald Balding, contender for No. 2 on the English international polo team. He was a little ahead of his teammates, but they were starting too. Their 67 ponies were on the way over on the S. S. Minnetonka. Another foreign team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked at 26 goals, were on hand to see and lend color to the summer's events. At Sands Point, and on the spacious turf overlooked by the stone terrace and colonial portico...
...SEROCOLD-Helen Ashton-Double- day, Doran...
...child." The time between is filled with his usual rounds: n visits, a mastoid operation. Wherever he goes he sees people he knows as none of their fellow-townspeople can know them, for 40 years he has heard their troubles, patched them up, prescribed for them. Authoress Ashton's method is ingenious, effective; though most of the "action" is reminiscence, seen through the doctor's thoughts, it covers a long time, many people...
...Author. Helen Ashton (Mrs. A. E. N. Jordan) was a nurse during the War, later studied medicine at the London Hospital. Her first novel. Far Enough, was also based on her medical experience. Handsome, dark, young, she lives in London with her husband. Said he one day: it would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible...
...Come-On Man. In the last five minutes of this play's inaction, one supposed detective turned out to be a crook and two supposed crooks turned out to be detectives. The entire cast, however, remained journeyman actors with but little chance to be anything else. Playwright Herbert Ashton Jr. and his father were the pseudo-crooks...