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Male critics cannot be expected to be familiar with the story of "Anne of Green Gables." The movie proves that a person's education has not been seriously injured by this omission. It is the story of a highly imaginative orphan girl, who eventually grows...
...York's Mayor & Mrs. Fiorello Henry LaGuardia formally adopted two children: brunette Jean, 6, niece of the Mayor's first wife, and blond Eric, 4, an orphan...
...orphan from an early age, Henri learned the mysteries of his profession from his foster brother, Jean Camous, became a precocious adept. At ten he had embarked on his career, soon found there was more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took...
...story of "Marie Galante" is an adventurous one. An orphan, Marie is the pet of the town which supports her by allowing her to deliver telegrams to congenial owners of little shops and cafes. Her innocent beauty strikes the eye of a sinister ship captain, who shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting...
Died. Edward West ("Daddy") Browning. 59, eccentric Manhattan real-estate tycoon and orphan fancier; of a heart attack following pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage; in Scarsdale, N. Y. His antics, matrimonial and otherwise, with Frances ("Peaches") Heenan (see p. 53) and other girls adopted by him, made bales of lurid copy, sent Manhattan tabloid circulation soaring...