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Close on the pattering heels of advices from Hollywood that Freddie Bartholomew, precious duckling of the silver screen, may apply for admission to the college came ugly rumors yesterday that Shirley Temple, his constant rhumba companion at California hot-spots, may enter Radcliffe, an institution on Garden street...
...stalemate, pleased that she could say, "I told you so." Altogether she and France had to survive eight civil wars. Survive them she did, though by the time they were over her purely maternal policy had involved her deep in gory deeds. For the treacherous massacre on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Biographer Roeder makes her directly responsible, attempts to show that the massacre was no part of a settled policy but a suddenly-enforced expedient to save her weak-kneed royal...
...hard to say whether "The Devil Is a Sissy" was written for Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney, or whether it was discovered as a suitable vehicle for its child stars. At any rate, it is not a first class production, mostly because the theme has been treated more than once. Essentially it is rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy...
Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...
Settled by compromise in Hollywood was the court battle between the aunt and parents of Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew over the guardianship of the 12-year-old star (TIME, April 20). Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew agreed to split Freddie's $1,250 weekly income with Miss Myllicent ("Aunt Cissie") Bartholomew, leave her exclusive control of his cinema career...