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...quintuplets did live. From tiny infants, fed with eyedroppers and enriched almost from birth with the dollars of the curious and the exploiters (total: about $1,250,000), they grew into carefully chaperoned girlhood, then into shy, sequestered, plain-looking young women. This year on their 20th birthday, Emilie, Annette and Cecile were taking domestic science studies; Yvonne was studying fine arts in Montreal; Marie was about to leave a Quebec convent where she had decided against becoming...
...novel's end, Cress's folks call her back from college to be at her dying grandfather's bedside. In a scene less solid than symbolic, Cress, now 16, gets her diploma from girlhood, and finally meets, in the fact of her grandfather's death, a reality larger than herself...
This time a teen-ager's mother leafs back through her memory book to the scenes of her girlhood. In the old days (1936). Jennifer Goodall was besieged by all types and ages of suitors. She necked, under her father's eye. in the family parlor. She came away unscathed from a visit to a bachelor establishment, came back unscathed from a business trip to Chicago with the boss...
...expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME...