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...Another midget and three more shaggy dogs named Ledyard Clark-sky wandered in to make things happier for all the boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

TAMPA. Fla. The mighty midget from Atlanta. Bryant Grant, today downed the nation's number one tennis player, Bobby Rigga, of Chicago. 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, in finals of men's singles of the annual Dixie tournament...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: Over the Wire | 1/9/1940 | See Source »

Coach Wes Fesler has made one change in the lineup since the M.I.T. game, adding Homer Peabody, six foot two center, to the list of starters in order to give some needed height to his midget team...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: HOOPSTERS AFTER FIRST WIN AGAINST HUSKIES TONIGHT | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...these people are as touching as his battered Arab who plays an ancient, mournful wail upon a harmonica. Some are as uproariously funny as his prodigious, W. C. Fieldsy liar (Len Doyle) who bursts on the stage with: "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds?" All are forlorn. But by means of a wealthy drunk (Eddie Dowling) with a generous purse Saroyan gives back to these people some of their hopes & dreams, something of their dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went to Paramount to borrow Bing Crosby. Paramount would not lend Crosby, hired Producer Rogers instead. He auditioned 1,583 juvenile performers. Two of the hopefuls, a midget and a little girl who despite her mother's promptings stolidly refused to open her mouth, were incorporated into the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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