Word: bonitas
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...knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half is over, Merrily We Live whisks up a first-rate cast (Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb, Bonita Granville, Patsy Kelly), deposits them in a neat row leading straight to its sure-fire climax...
...Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
Tituba, a Negro servant (Madame Sul-Te-Wan), gets the Massachusetts housewives thinking about witches when she tells of devil dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person...
...from the Kris Kringle type is Manhattan's No. 1 Christmas tree dealer, 45-year-old Fred Vahlsing. One of the biggest vegetable shippers in the U. S., owner of rich farms in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing...
...boarding-school, a maliciously insane little girl, and an unsuccessful libel suit are the ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries...