MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES, VERA NEUMANN, FLOYD DELL & HOWARD DA SILVA

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SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES, VERA NEUMANN--FLOYD DELL--AND HOWARD DA SILVA--click on the photos and links.

First up from the Patent Trader, 1974, Katonah Gallery to feature Collections/Philosophies--Vera Neunann lent her Picasso owl drawings, her Miros and other items reflecting her love of color and design to the exhibit.

Next up, Floyd Dell Reads Poems to Members of Croton Rotary 1930...

Dell was part of "Croton's Bohemia" and while few read his books today, his novels were once immensely popular. 

Read more about Dell, courtesy of Croton's own Robert Scott in...

Floyd Dell: A Respectable Radical, Chronicles of Croton's Bohemia https://bit.ly/2teshGr

Next up, more about Howard Da Silva, one of Croton's most famous notables....a charming little clip (highlighted in red) from December 1946, "IN HOLLYWOOD".

It;s followed by a p.r. blurb for 1947's BLAZE OF NOON, with ANNE BAXTER, HOWARD DA SILVA, WILLIAM HOLDEN, STERLING HAYDEN, SONNY TUFTS, and WILLIAM HOLDEN in starring roles.

Blaze of Noon is a 1947 aviation adventure film directed by John Farrow and based on writer and aviator Ernest K. Gann's best-selling novel Blaze of Noon (1946), a story about early air mail operations. 

The screenplay was from well-known writer and aviator Frank "Spig" Wead and Arthur Sheekman.

And in case you missed it, a post on Da Silva in The Lost Weekend with Ray Milland here.

See the last edition of......

MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS AND PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES, FAY BAINTER, ALEXANDER CALDER, AND GLORIA SWANSON, MADAME SANS-GEN at

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