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...saddle tramp (Joel McCrea) is a footloose cowpoke, lazy and carefree enough to be played by Bing Crosby. Circumstances make him responsible for the care & feeding of four orphan boys and a girl (Wanda Hendrix) who is fleeing her lecherous uncle. He reluctantly takes a job with a child-hating rancher (John Mclntire), hides and feeds his charges in the nearby woods. Wanda and the tots (help him with his chores and eventually with the unmasking of a foul plot against the rancher...
...been nine years since she zoomed into Hollywood. All but bursting with vitality, she tore into her film career with a bellicose zeal and a tomboyish winsomeness that suggested a cross between one of the Furies and Little Orphan Annie. Last year, having made two duds in a row (Dream Girl and Red, Hot and Blue), she decided, probably correctly: "My career needed a jolt...
Rick Martin is an orphan, brought up by his sister in Los Angeles. At an early age he meets and grows to worship a Negro trumpeter, Art Hazard (a "preaching" role, played uncomfortably by Juano Henandez), and takes lessons from him. It soon becomes apparent that the trumpet is the only thing Rick can rely upon completely...
...perennial president of Argentina's Sociedad de Beneficencia, a sort of community chest which supported most of the nation's hospitals, homes for the aged and orphan asylums. But when the Peróns came to power, Argentine charity became a political matter and a virtual monopoly of the First Lady. The high-born oligarcas of the Beneficencia pointedly refrained from inviting Evita to become their honorary president; Evita retaliated by virtually running them out of business...
Class president Joan Bresnahan '51 will also announce the adoption of a new class foster child, a Polish refugee now in England. Previously the juniors provided for the food and clothing of Ching Ming, a Chinese orphan, who is now in a secondary school...