Word: huck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good fortune meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance has also the charm of being the least camera-conscious. So far as Tommy was concerned, he never acted at all: "All I did was what I was told...
Married. Manuel Alonso, tennist, long-time Spanish Davis Cup player, to Mrs. Ginetta Traini Huck; in Manhattan...
Died. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, 53, first Congresswoman from Illinois (1922-23); after long illness; in Chicago...
...greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side...
...surface, the long lazy days and river night-falls of Hannibal, Mo. in 1870, and the adventures of some children there. Naturally, the adventures have been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin...