ASTOS Volume 1, Number 13.  May 15, 2003
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WARM-UPS: 
Welcome ASTOS subscribers, new and old to our thirteenth issue!  If you collect movie items please don't forget to visit our eBay listings where right now you'll find some 1930's Tobacco Premiums of some of the top stars (Gable, Lombard, Barrymore, Powell, etc.) plus some original double-weight linen 8x10" photographs from the 1920's.  Great stuff, take a look!

More photos and some original stills to come in the coming weeks, but first up as soon as we can scan them all are more of the popular linen premium photos from the 1936 period.  If you're not sure which ones I am talking about we have offered these for sale previously and remainders from those offerings can be found by clicking HERE.

The Silent Collection features one of my favorites, The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful, Barbara La Marr.  Barbara was one of Hollywood's earliest tragedies, Tammy Stone takes a look at one of our more curious stars of the teens and twenties with Ms. La Marr.  Penny Deutsch who most recently entertained us with her tale of Marlene Dietrich is back to tell us of the most famed Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller.  The tale of Weissmuller can perhaps help wean our former sports subscribers off of their ASTOS baseball fix, they should know what I mean.

Be sure to follow the link towards the end of the newsletter for details on your special shipping savings, good for ASTOS subscribers only.  I put it here last issue, so again I wanted to give a little push to our Classified Advertising page.  All ads are free and the ground rules are pretty simple, so whether you're buying or selling, send us your ad(s) today!  And if you're just shopping there are four brand new ads since the last issue so take a look.

Enough for now, to the time tunnel we go!
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The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone
BARBARA LA MARR

In a bizarre twist to the adage that one can’t be too rich or too thin, it seems one can be too beautiful. Known around the world in her day as “The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful”, Barbara LaMarr, in her short life, created a body of work that would truly immortalize her. As ethereal as she appeared on the screen, her many admirers pointed repeatedly to her intelligence, compassion, humour and her exceptional beauty off screen as well.

This is just a teaser--check out Tammy's entire column with pictures!
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Tammy Stone is a freelance writer and journalist based in Toronto. Watch for her regular column on the greats of the Silent Screen here in ASTOS twice monthly.  Tammy invites you to write her at stonetamar@hotmail.com with any questions or comments on her column.
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INTERMISSION:
It's a separate hobby from what most of us collect, but when ink blotters feature advertisements depicting film actresses they become items of interest.  We have recently purchased, broken, and sold several singles from sample sets of blotters featuring silent film actresses.  Take a look at some of them and enjoy!
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JOHNNY WEISSMULLER
by Penny Deutsch

Born in Freidorf, Hungary in 1904, Peter Janos Weissmuller’s family immigrated to the United States in 1907, where he grew up in the southwestern Pennsylvania town of Windber. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade, shortly before the death of his father, who was a brew master, and learned to swim at about age 9 in the city's public pools and in Lake Michigan. From August 1921, when as a 17- year-old he broke his first world record, until he turned professional in January 1929, he set and reset world and national freestyle records for distances from 50 yards to a half mile.

This is just a teaser--check out Penny's entire article with pictures!
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Penny Deutsch is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to things-and-other-stuff.com.  Visit her web site Super Scripting Style at http://www.superscriptingstyle.net/.
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END CREDITS:
Don't forget if you want to buy the classic movies on VHS video, please check out our offerings on  things-and-other-stuff at Half.com.
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CURTAINS:
Hope that you enjoyed the latest issue of ASTOS and look forward to the next issue as much as I do!  Kendahl Cruver returns to ASTOS May 31 with her article about the beautiful star of Laura, Gene Tierney.  Of course, Tammy Stone will be here with The Silent Collection as well.  See you then!

As always feel free to e-mail any thoughts or ideas to us at things@things-and-other-stuff.com, we're always willing to listen. 
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