Word: heidi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed Honorary President of Butlers' Club, Inc. (an organization of butlers and maids employed by U. S. socialites) was famed Film Butler Arthur Treacher (The Case Against Mrs. Ames, Thank You Jeeves, Heidi...
...Books, July 4 issue, in the story of the present bestsellers, TIME states that the two best-selling books of the week at The Emporium's bookstore in San Francisco were Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand. I assume that you chose The Emporium as a store whose sales are representative of San Francisco as a whole, i.e., Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand were San Francisco's best-sellers last fortnight...
...Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...
...Heidi (Twentieth Century-Fox). The story was published in Germany in 1881, and translations began to appear soon after. Ever since then English, German, Italian, Russian, Austrian, French, Swiss, U. S. and Scandinavian children have kept Heidi a bestseller. Like all Shirley Temple stories, Heidi traces the reaction of human wickedness to the Temple dimples; unlike many of them, it has a craftsmanlike dramatic structure...
Aunt Dete (Mady Christians) took Heidi to the Alpine hut of Grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt) because she was tired of looking after her. Grandpa Kramer, a recluse, had not spoken to anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick...