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...Unexpected Father" is the delightful story of three young people-Auer, Dennis O'Keefe, and Shirley Ross-trying to keep Hollywood's new gaglette, Baby Sandy, out of the clutches of an orphan asylum. Sandy goes goo-goo and the audience goes ga-ga and so the picture goes humorously along...
...style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim...
...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...
...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...