Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freddie Bartholomew, 11, George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...cameraman (free lance) whose curious business and nomadic ways call him from one country to another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight over many a Young Abbe observation of elders' ways, were reminded more than once...
...three-child collaboration, the narrative never indicates exactly where the authorship changes hands, but internal evidence indicates that Eldest Abbe Patience did most. She starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until...
Piers, Lord Sparkenbroke, was a dazzling child with the mark of genius on his pallid brow. Because of an intense experience in his childhood, his poetic imagination took on a somewhat morbid tinge: he worshipped love, life and death as aspects of a trinity. This attitude, with his handsome face and title, made him a devastating lover but an unsatisfactory husband. While his adoring wile and son lived for his infrequent visits home, Sparkenbroke loved, suffered and wrote in his villa in Italy, with his valet, a kind of super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote...
...took his family to the 1,000-acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold...