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...selling fairy stories. When he barked, she cackled crazily and said: "I know it's you, you nasty man. May you bark till you find somebody who loves you." The villain smirked disdainfully and went right on barking, but in a minute-yipe! The slumlord physically became the cur he essentially...
...that point, this Spanish-speaking, English-titled comedy, which for two reels seems no more than a mildly amusing attempt to raise some Dickens, suddenly turns into a minor screwball sensation. As a dog, the cur at one stroke loses all his human rights-and properties. Without money, without clothes, without shelter, without food, he begins to live the dog's life he deserves. As he wanders the streets, dogs yap at him, boys kick at him, motorists use him for target practice. A bum sells him to a sausage factory...
...Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter). In the final, frenzied weeks before first night on Broadway, Kay must grind out not only the orchestrations for songs and dances, but the "bridges" between numbers, the entr'actes, and finally the overture, a chore Kay and associates sometimes finish scant hours before cur tain time. The job pays a top arranger anywhere from $10,000 to $16,000 a show...
...your country." Since then. President Kennedy has talked often and eloquently of sacrifice-without telling Americans just what they are supposed to do. Presumably, through his personal confrontation with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, the President can complete his assessment of just how acute he thinks Communism's cur rent threat to be, and what form it will take. Then President Kennedy may be able to come home with specific measures of the sacrifices that the U.S. must make. If so, Vienna will have been of historic value...
...saintly popularity soared with what seemed to be the miraculous cure of the dying Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot, French founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Philomena was also one of the favorite saints of St. Jean Vianney (1786-1859), France's famed Curé d'Ars, who called her his "dear little saint" and his "agent in heaven." In recent times some 300,000 tourists have visited her shrine at Mugnano del Cardinale each year, and countless churches have been dedicated to her-more than 100 in the U.S. alone...