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...Littlest Rebel (Twentieth Century-Fox). Cinema folk have lately been telling one another that Shirley Temple and Abraham Lincoln would make "an unbeatable combination." Definitely un beatable, the combination is well planted in this picture. When the Great Emancipator (Frank McGlynn Sr.) receives in his office Virgie Carey, "The Littlest Rebel of Them All," accompanied by her faithful black servitor, it is to plank the child on his desk, share an apple with her and hear from her the sad old story about the dashing Confederate scout (John Boles) who happens to be her widowed father...
...hand in case Tarzan, excited by the smell of half-healed wounds, should misbehave again. This time he only sniffed courageous Bickford, played the scene obediently. Bickford played two more scenes necessary to finish the picture, was too sick to take a scheduled part with Shirley Temple in The Littlest Rebel...
...Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado...
...prepared to review the code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago...
When the doctor came he could do nothing. All the household came quietly in, stood about the room while the mother died. The children came too. When she was dead they still did not understand; the littlest ones asked what had happened...