Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...
Friends, In the life of a normal child celebrity, it is not contact with the adults whom she meets in her work which is dangerous but encounters with children of her own age. Accustomed to celebrities, her studio acquaintances treat Shirley Temple like an ordinary child. Ordinary children, by being shy and filled with awe, sometimes give her an exaggerated sense of her importance...
...leave their stern post. Reason: ill health. Since 1920, Dr. & Mrs. Greist have been "outside" only once, eleven years ago. Now, after a visit with relatives in California, a visit to Monticello, Ind. where Dr. Greist left a private hospital to go to Alaska, a visit with their only child David at Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where Dr. Greist wanted to go when he was graduated from Indiana University's School of Medicine 42 years ago. His mind was changed for him when...
Bury the Dead (by Irwin Shaw; Alex Yokel, producer) made its author famed before it was given a full-fledged production. A 23-year-old Brooklynite, Irwin Shaw had previously distinguished himself chiefly as a third-rate semiprofessional football player and writer of the "Dick Tracy" radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts...
...toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even a patriotic child...