Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even as a child of four, Henry displayed that heavy jowl and petulant mouth which Holbein the Younger was later to immortalize on canvas...
Perils of Pauline (Paramount) is the best remembered of the old serials which starred Pearl White during the wild, playful childhood of the movies (roughly 1910 to 1920). It is also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents...
High Barbaree. June Allyson and Van Johnson in a pleasant romance about a boy who forgot his childhood dreams and a girl who never forgot (TIME, June...
...that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal of fun, but very little nonsense, in the Victorian childhood which Author Gulielma Alsop recalls with understandable nostalgia in Deer Creek...
Arthémise Goertz, who wrote this Literary Guild selection for July, is fortyish and kindly, and she has had her quota of happiness, excitement and tragedy. Her New Orleans childhood was in the "German tradition of discipline and duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back...