Word: benefactresses
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...streets is Jackie Cooper. A piping Skippy at 8, he is now 14, passes, with adolescent gruffness, for 16 in the film. Trying to get away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger...
...under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled...
Overwhelmed by a stroke of good fortune which he regards as the reward of his own patience and integrity, Dr. Sporum's first impulse is to buy himself a patented pencil sharpener. His second is to fall in love with his benefactress, who begins to understand the perils of irresponsible benevolence. By the time Dr. Sporum has had his beard shaved off and presented Luisa Ginglebusher with a fox neckpiece, there is nothing much left in The Good Fairy except the scene in which Luisa explains to her three puzzled admirers what she has been up to, straightens...
...mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse, and at last brings tragedy. Finally, Mr. Wiggs does wander home...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...