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...Creston...
Thirty-eight years ago a shy young Creston, Ill. farmer named Stanley R. Pierce took his 1,43O-lb. Aberdeen-Angus steer, Advance, 72 miles to Chicago, to the first International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway...
Little-Known Composers (Sun. 3 p.m. CBS). Episodic Suite by Julia Smith of Denton, Tex., Partita by Paul Creston of Sunnyside, L. I.; played by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
With such material as her basis, Dormer Creston has constructed a biography of Maric Bashkirtseff which is a mingling of tears and laughter, joy and deep tragedy. Such was the life of this youthful and ambitious artist. From her earliest days, which Miss Creston describes in a light and whimsical yein, to her later life, Maric Bashkirtseff demanded of the world, and life itself, all that it had to offer...
...realize, possibly, that Marie Bashkirtseff was a genius, that her works should have their place in the British Museum, the Musee de Luxembourg, and the Nice Museum. For one who has not read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value of the original...