Word: starretts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leonard Gribble told an unbelievable story of the murder of a self-made Englishman at a fancy-dress ball. In Midnight and Percy Jones Vincent Starrett told the story of the shooting of a Chicago concert singer and the solution of the crime by Riley Blackwood, a drama critic and annoying amateur detective...
...handsome a man as Dartmouth even offered to the movies, Bob Allen seemed destined to mirror the obscurity of another Dartmouth son in Holywood, Charles Starrett. Allen knocked about in bit parts for several years and could convince no one that his football and college stage training meant anything...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...once had notions of becoming a singer herself. Instead she married Harry Elstner Talbott. an engineer who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. They had seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There are 32 grandchildren who, like their parents, pay frequent...
...said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must conclude that, if Mr. Starrett has been a little too willing to be naive, his naivete has at least the merit of being understood; and that for the rest, his biography is vivacious and readable...