Word: kids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly 19 years ago, in a motion picture called The Kid, a saucy, bright-eyed little ragamuffin, taffy hair rumpled untidily under a tattered caricature of a cap, scampered into the hearts of the world cinemaudience clinging to the threadbare coattails of Charlie Chaplin. The kid was Jackie Coogan. Before he was 10, Jackie was a corporation, Jackie Coogan Productions...
...pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born at Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those that were left of us-just cracked and ran. . . . This war cannot last much longer. . . . That man Franco has everything! The Spaniards...
Sued. By Jackie Coogan, 23, onetime child cinemactor (The Kid); his mother and stepfather; on charges that they are continuing to withhold from him $4,000,000 which he earned as a minor. Young Mr. Coogan, who recently married Cinemactress Betty Grable, declared himself broke...
...family comes from (his 21-year-old brother, James, and his 16-year-old sister write too). He can only record how many poems he wrote, not how he wrote them or where they came from. But they have been coming for a long while. As a kid he went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Burns, read poetry by lantern light until the dog's barking signaled a treed coon...
...seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome-Berlin axis, and the friendly manner in which the two strong men goose-step arm in arm and kid each other about colonies, is among the best touches of the production...