Word: moppets
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Even if a single dose is brought down within safe limits, a child is still in danger of overexposure. Most authorities set three exposures in one day, or twelve in a year, as the maximum allowable. But on many machines there is nothing to keep a moppet from pressing the button again & again to see his wiggling toes. And if mother is hard to please, the salesman will want to give her another look...
...Portland, Ore., Mrs. Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over his public sendoff, Nicholas snoozed through the flashbulbs...
...Everything (20th Century-Fox) is a movie of and for the family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...
...penny-pinching Broadway bookie, Hope has only two props to work with, but both of them get worked to a fare-thee-well. One is a forward little moppet (Mary Jane Saunders) whom Hope accepts as an I.O.U. on a racing bet and later adopts as a permanent but irresistible liability. The other is a horse called Dreamy Joe. When Mary Jane needs a nightie, Hope flings her a sodden, outsized sweatshirt; when she is sleepy, he sings her a lullaby improvised from a handy racing sheet. When she lies desperately ill in a hospital, Hope smuggles Dreamy...
...Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True, there's plenty of the old Hope slapstick and a dozen of those gun-in-back wisecracks, but there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet...