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...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...
...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...
...Tiso's telegram was to the week's third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...
That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...
...youngster have toddled, off with the honors, if there are any honors, in the current cinemas at the University. Besides the Mountie thriller, "Heart of the North," in which little Janet Chapman, as a precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than...