Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says thanks, too, wonders if Reader Quails would mind if he gave her $1 to the Children's Crusade fund. He is 13 year-old Eugene Lewis of the Colored Orphan Asylum in the Bronx. One of the brightest of the Asylum's 170 orphans, Eugene is a baseball player and trackman, stars in all the school plays...
...march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every child in America ought to feel vividly the suffering and loneliness experienced by the children who are victims of a racial and religious intolerance...
...chewing, fuzzy-voiced Actress Chatterton, 46, dimpled her way to fame on Broadway as Little Orphan Judy in soppy Daddy Long-Legs, kept climbing with young-girl parts in Come Out of the Kitchen, Mary Rose. Leaving Broadway in 1925, she acted for a while in San Francisco, wound up in Hollywood. There, in the early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After...
...buskers (London sidewalk entertainers), is less interesting than the star, who is Vivien Leigh. For Cinemactress Leigh Sidewalks of London (made a year or so before Gone With the Wind entered its delayed birth pangs) must have been a dress rehearsal. Liberty (Vivien Leigh), the saucy, thieving cockney orphan, who selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease paint. Smart Director Tim Whelan (Clouds over Europe) succeeds in making the atmosphere so realistically London that U. S. cinemaddicts have some trouble getting through the dialectical...
...anyone who is accustomed to sighing deeply when anything connected with France is mentioned, today's program at the Institute of Geographical Exploratin will seem admirable. Featuring Danielle Darrieux (elle garde toujours ses lignes), Abus de Confiance is a pleasant little tale about an orphan girl in Paris who is forced to quit the university because her grandmother dies without leaving any money. Danielle, as Lydia, tries every means to earn herself a living; that is, except the unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate...