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...Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris ("Dee-Dee") grew up to be a moderately pretty blue-eyed blonde. Her height (5 ft. 8 in.) limited her dancing partners. Heaping gobs of her favorite dish, spaghetti, never misplaced a bulge in her slim figure. Sure of herself in her New Jersey surroundings, she also managed to enjoy herself at night clubs but rarely rollicked. Other youngsters twitted her as "the good little Duke girl." She avoided theatrical first-nights, rarely wore jewelry, occasionally affected smoked glasses...
...lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping in Papa's plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade in the corner of a room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living...
...meet in Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
This surplus amounted, for the college year 1933-34, to a little over one cent per meal. With such a narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...
...Greta Garbo were suddenly to break into "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Good shot : Shirley's mean playmate, brilliantly impersonated by 8-year-old Jane Withers, showing her the game of trainwreck. The Band Plays On (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Copiously seasoned with false sentiment and meretricious heroism, this dish of college, football & young love presents four young hoodlums turned from careers of crime by a kindly coach. As the "Four Bombers" they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo and Ted Healy. each of whom sets fire to the seat...