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...draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling adolescence, "Corky," too, outgrew his infant tricks...
...their gallery of women there is Alice, the professional criminal, whose paternal ancestors were drunkards and thieves, whose maternal ancestors were oversexed. Alice, beautiful redhead, began to lie and steal almost from babyhood. At 18 she was a shoplifter of considerable note. A reformatory sentence did Alice no good. At 35 she is "a crafty, thoroughly experienced criminal...
...using their hands, sometimes foggy as to specific facts. Nearly all Progressive schools are in cities. Four of the best-known ones are in New York: Walden, founded 19 years ago by Margaret Naumburg, has a set daily program but endeavors to make the children self-reliant (from babyhood through high school age), permits them to call their teachers by first name. Lincoln School, experimental offspring of Teachers College at Columbia University, has received nearly $6,000,000 from the General Education Board (Rockefeller), has counted among its pupils Nelson and Lawrence, sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The flourishing...
...cinemothers, Louise Dresser, tries hard and resourcefully to keep her daughter away from a no-good fellow. Dimpled June Collyer does not know that Miss Dresser is her mother at all. This is not surprising because daughter and mother have not seen each other since the one's babyhood and the other's flaming youth. Also, because the mother, as a nightclub hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite...
...Story. When Anne India heard of the death of her cousin Tomlin, she exulted in life's restored cleanliness. Cousin Tomlin had been born with a little horn above his left ear. It had vanished during his babyhood leaving only a corneous spot on his skull; but people were glad when Tomlin died...