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...Huntington, W. Va. Herald-Dispatch solemnly stopped publishing the famed comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," last week on the ground that "Annie has been made the vehicle for a studied, veiled, and alarmingly vindictive propaganda...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...
Married. Aloah Dallas Elk, 26, blind musician, protégée of the Dallas (Tex.) Elks Club which adopted her as an orphan, had her legally named Dallas Elk; and William Parks, 30, blind Chicago organist; in Chicago...
...time woodcarving, drawing, painting. Adolf was 18 when his mother died in 1907. The next year he took his drawings to Vienna's great Kunstakademie (Art Institute), applied for a scholarship. He was turned down, generally for "lack of talent," specifically because his drawings were too "architectural." And the orphan, who had assigned all his father's income to his sister, could not afford to take the preliminary courses necessary to become an architect...
...than most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which...