Word: aster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
There is very little acting except saying of lines and screaming. That one can forgive. But inasmuch as every third scene or so is comic relief, it is a little disappointing to find no comedy. Besides Ricardo Cortez and Mary Aster, there is a new girl in the picture named Kay Linaker. We wish that we could be as confident as Warner Brothers that she is "destined for stardom shortly...
...usual corps of continental villains, replete with monocles, saber scars, and slouch hats, "I Am a Thief," the mystery melodrama at the Fenway, is fairly successful. The plot, which involves a clever jewelry theft, may be old, but it works, to the complete mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with verve and dash...
Will Largent's steer was not the only Hereford to receive the canny favor of Judge Biggar last week. For reserve (second place) champion he chose Aster Domino, owned by Wyoming Hereford Ranch of Cheyenne; for best herd he chose a group of Herefords shown by the Oklahoma A. & M. College (Stillwater, Okla...
...Farm? Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...