Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood curdling restraint. When Bill Peck returns...
...miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith is all but destroyed. Finally, a boy with a paralyzed leg "miracle," is thus cured by his producing a faith in second the first and authentic miracle, restoring Lytell's faith and the case for canonization...
Dreiser's report of the Wilkes-Barre trial last week likewise was an indictment of the "system." And, like the novel, his accounts were turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything...
...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Shirley Lippmann gave orders for her newborn son to be inducted into the Hebrew faith according to prescribed ritual. Thirty minutes later hospital attendants laid on her pillow a baby boy neatly circumcised. Moaned Mrs. Lippmann: "That's not my Michael." Shrieked Mrs. Alfred Lyman from the next bed: "That's my Robert." Because the operation "irreparably altered their son's physical condition, repugnantly and contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith," Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Lyman brought suit for $75,000 against the Jewish hospital director, the Jewish mohel...
...European students, we are surprised to perceive the attitude with which the recent assassinations in Marseilles are being received by the American press. It appears that the main object of interest with regard to this terrible affair is the story of the Boy-King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity...