Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vancouver, B. C. debarked chubby Orphan Helen Priscilla Stam, aged 5, on her first trip out of China. When she was three months old, Chinese bandits broadsworded off the heads of her missionary parents, would have done the same to Helen had a Chinese Christian not offered (acceptably) his life for hers...
Today the process of adoption is no secret. In every State numerous orphan asylums, private or State agencies have adoption services. Most famed haven is The Cradle at Evanston, Ill., which has sent children to Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, George Burns and Grade Allen, Miriam Hopkins, Joe E. Brown...
...Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
...Stand Up and a Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds...
...with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel hand of iron. There is the lovely orphan lass from the south ho has come to live with her uncle. And in the centre of its al there is the same roaring saloon with swinging doors and husky voiced entertainers hipping their ways around. It is, of course, a western with modern trimmings--a Cast of thousands, Technicolor...