Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government been today in possession of the most binding engagements signed by Mrs. Simpson not to divulge these secrets. It was also necessary, for the highest reasons of State and also for other reasons, to establish in an official manner whether or not last week Mrs. Simpson was with child, as suggested by the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre...
...which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff as Universal's outstanding attraction, 14-year-old Deanna Durbin...
Whether Deanna Durbin will really be as much of a drawing card as Universal expects is currently as perplexing to Hollywood as whether she is its oldest child actress or its youngest adult star. Cinemactress Durbin, currently in New York on vacation, owns three pet turtles, a black dog named Tippy, collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal...
...Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish in a pan of deaerated water to prove that fish must breathe. The geography course recounts the travels of an imaginary Hamilton family, conveniently consisting of one child in each age group and Grandmother Hamilton, who provides learned commentary on places from Bogota to Baffin Island where Mr. Hamilton "has business." Enormously popular, the American School of the Air is regularly heard by pupils in every state...
...Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...