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...Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by sending her little granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), to their school and recommending it to her friends. Mary Tilford, shrewd, neurotic and remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards are in her hands. She whispers...
These Three may presage a year in which child actresses will provide their own antidote to Shirley Temple and, barring the unforeseeable, should win Author Hellman next year's Academy prize for adaptation. In the part that 25-year-old Florence McGee plays on the stage, solemn nervous Bonita Granville, 13, makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating...
Last week the Navy Department changed the numbers of its big V-type submarines to fish names. New names for the V-1 to V-9, in order: Barracuda, Bass, Bonita, Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, Dolphin, Cachalot, Cuttlefish. In the Navy there have already been four Dolphins, two Bonitas, two Nautiluses, one Barracuda, one Narwhal, one Cachalot, one Cuttlefish...
...McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
...following 14 members of the University second football team have been awarded the H2nd for the first time: R. M. Allen '11, of Bonita, Cal.; W. J. Blake '13, of Fall River; C. L. Callander uC., of Fargo, N. D.; S. W. Chaffee '13, of Brookline; J. M. Eager uC., of Portland, Me.; R. W. Eckfeldt '13, of Concord; J. E. Foristall '13, of East Boston; J. G. French '12, of Philadelphia, Pa.; T. C. Hardwick '13, of Quincy; T. A. Jenckes, Jr., '13, of Providence, R. I.; D. Lawson '13, of Boston; E. A. Lingard '13, of Boston...