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...scene when control of his new daughters was taken from his hands, given to a Government-appointed board of guardians. It was another affront to his paternal dignity when the girls were kept in aseptic isolation in a fancy hospital-home of their own. For almost ten years Oliva Dionne had nursed a wounded pride. Last week he won a great victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: Victory for Papa | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...slow show saved by some top-rung acting. Oliva de Haviland proffers a pleasing new approach, abandoning Melanie's sweet-souled idealism for a rougher characterization. Alan Hale as a street-cleaner and wife-wolfer is huge and gives the customers a few hearty giggles. Cagney's successful plodding is beautifully contrasted against the strawberry blonde's hypocritical and disastrous social climbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan for Christmas shopping, Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne-ex quintuplets-went to see a musical comedy Too Many Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Month ago Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club, a self-boosting boosters' organization, honor-guested folksy little Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, made him don a white gown inscribed "Doctor of Litters," carry a bag labeled "Mass Delivery." In Callander, Ont.,† fertile Father Oliva Dionne decided he had been ridiculed, slow-boiled, exploded with a damage suit against Dr. Dafoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Sixth Day. In Toronto Monday noon, Their Majesties met the only Canadians who are perhaps more famous than themselves-the Dionne Quintuplets. What happened history will enjoy longer than any other episode of this trip. With Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Oliva Dionne and wife and seven of the eight other Dionnes, the Quintuplets were bustled into the Lieutenant Governor's room of the Parliament Building. All five wore puffy, white organdie court frocks and poke bonnets, and each wore her favorite flower in her hair. Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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