Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receives 3,500 letters and $10,000 in an average week. She is, outside of the 100,000 feet of screen film on which she appears every year, the world's most photographed person. Last week in Los Angeles, Shirley Temple was getting ready for her seventh birthday. All over the U. S. cinemaddicts packed theatres to see her first release of 1936 and the first picture she has made since the reorganization of the $54,000,000 company in which she is the most valuable single asset...
Captain January (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the story of a poor little foundling (Shirley Temple) washed up on the New England shore and adopted by a kindly lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee). Approaching her seventh birthday, the foundling is an extraordinary child. When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken...
That this is entirely as it should be, in the opinion of U. S. cinemaddicts, was proved by the reception of the picture last week. Captain January smashed box office records in Milwaukee, Portland, Me., Dayton, Richmond, Cincinnati, Boston and Baltimore. Preparations for Shirley Temple's birthday were thus enhanced by the certainty that neither increasing age nor the loss of her teeth has yet hurt her prestige and that, in her eighth year, she was likely to exert an even greater influence upon the entertainment business and its patrons than she did in her fifth, sixth and seventh...
...Birthday. Famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow; 79. Said he: "At 20 a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's 79, he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. . . . The law is a horrible business. There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court...
...Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...