Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many holidays during my impressionable moppetry were bewildered into discouragement from a child's losing argument on the Christian influence of Girard College and the basic Christian intentions of Stephen Girard in connection therewith as prescribed in his unique will. I have fled from my tormentors of 1912; your accurate article will answer the tormentors...
Gentle Julia (Twentieth Century-Fox). Busily cornering the market on child talent, Twentieth Century-Fox not only controls Shirley Temple but also her antithesis, Jane Withers. Like Captain January, Gentle Julia is a star's ve-hide, perambulator size. It exhibits Miss Withers as Florence Atwater, small niece of the heroine of Booth Tarkington's famed novel. She spends her time disrupting the flirtations of Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt), blackmailing her small cousin (Jackie Searle), annoying her grandfather, snubbing her aunt's most impressive beau. She has an attachment for a shaggy young newspaperman (Tom Brown...
Captain January (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the story of a poor little foundling (Shirley Temple) washed up on the New England shore and adopted by a kindly lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee). Approaching her seventh birthday, the foundling is an extraordinary child. When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken...
Debut. Unlike most cinemactresses, Shirley Temple does not conceal the date of her birth. It was April 23, 1929. Five weeks after the market crash, she uttered her first word: "Mama!" The next May she could waddle. She was a spindly child but neither sickly nor remarkable. At 3, she had measles. Soon afterward she was sent to the Meglin Dance Studio where...
Garlanded with such laurels at an age when her contemporaries become inflated with conceit about a gold star on the report card, it might seem natural for the most celebrated child alive to be in private life also the most objectionable sample of precocity, weight for age, who ever gave sharp answers to her betters. Such is not the case. Disappointing as the case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon...