Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most talented babes of Babes In Arms are apparently not even eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene...
...that grim period linger on in all the arts. Little of this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
Published without the consent of its author, the novel achieved huge success in Germany until, after twelve editions, Liepmann returned to the country and immediately put a stop to further publication. The story is in the main taken from the author's own diaries--the diaries of an introspective child of the war. "It is one of those books which can never be forgotten never as long as you live," were the words the late John Galsworthy addressed to the author after reading the book in the original German...
...Child of Trouble. The night Morris Watson was born his mother died, and his house burned down. That was in Joplin, Mo., Jan. 29, 1901. He ran away from home in 1915 having completed but one year of high school; 1916 found him a soldier in the U. S. Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer...
...herd of 80, one of the biggest ever captured in Mysore, and one of Mysore's biggest single wild elephants, who does not distinguish himself in the picture. Huge Kala Nag's real name is Iravatha. His specialty is tricks, best of which, stepping over a prostrate child, he executes in Elephant Boy. Toomai's real name is Sabu. Brought back to London to play parts in future London Films, he currently has a smart London apartment, drives about in his own midget...