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Another modest psychologist commented, "A very healthy sign. I'm a Little Orphan Annie fan myself...
VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE- Barry Benefield-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). Sentimental story of a bad woman of Crebillon, La., who is regenerated through the influence of a manly little 7-year-old. They befriend an orphan named Lady, succeed in the cleaning business in Manhattan and live with such aggressive goodwill toward mankind that mushy seems a more accurate word for Carrie and her friends...
...Radio Corp. of America has been Radio-Keith-Orpheum, theatre and cinema-producing company in the courts since February 1933. Last week David Sarnoff, short, round-faced head of Radio Corp. said, in effect, to his troublesome corporate offspring: "Go and never darken my door again." But the orphan was not put out into any storm. Waiting to receive it was Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. which, together with Lehman Bros., Manhattan banking house, bought an unspecified portion of RCA's holdings in RKO stocks and debentures. What Atlas and Lehman paid for their purchase was equally...
...over an advertiser even if he knew he was wrong. . . . One of the most interesting phases of Rounsevell's personality ... is the fact that during his lifetime he has adopted three generations of children. When he was nine years old he persuaded his mother to adopt a baby orphan girl, which he cared for and raised at sporadic intervals in his career. When the child grew up she married and became the mother of a baby girl which Rounsevell in turn also adopted. This second adopted child is now grown and the mother of adopted Barbara Rounsevell. Because...
...those who know their Runyon need not be told that the criminals are made to feel ludicrously uneasy by the State trooper, that the orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer...