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Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...
...first big-league appearance Judy turned out to be a knowing, unmanageable gamin ("Shirley, watch my language!") who thought Eddie Cantor was a puppet ("Oh, he talks!") and distrusted his fiscal attitude ("Get the cash, get the cash!"). Says Cantor: "We're going to go on as though Charlie McCarthy didn't exist...
...boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the learned assembly. Mr. Kittredge, who was presiding, asked me to take the chair, picked up a hat from the next seat, and chased the boys to Harvard Square. In a few minutes he returned, leading by each hand a cowering little gamin, whom he brought in to apologize to the Division! Unfortunately when he rushed out he had picked up a hat several sizes too small for him, and as he stood there with his prisoners it was perched very jauntily on his imposing head. The members of the Division enjoyed...
...archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors which, with Rivera as its gun-toting maestro, was then remaking...
...this time Chaplin has made the acquaintance of a Gamin (Paulette Goddard). She has patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have...