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...marked "Excellent" by the mothers: Roses and Drums, Current Events, Today's News, Great Moments in History, MARCH OF TIME. Only in Comedian Eddie Cantor did the two viewpoints meet. Rated "Good" by the mothers, he was the children's first choice. Next in popularity came Little Orphan Annie, who advertises Ovaltine and provides beetleware Orphan Annie Mugs to those who send in seals from Ovaltine cans. The Scarsdale mothers called her "Very Poor" because of her "bad emotional effect and unnatural voice." Some other ratings by the mothers...
Children's program Skippy & Little Orphan Annie...
...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
...other feature, "Little Orphan Annie," the ordinarily hard-to-bear Mitzi Green is absolutely insufferable. Those who follow the comic strip assidously will be grievously disappointed to see Sandy a German shepherd and Daddy Warbucks an insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee...
...conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor, soldier in a Viennese regiment, sole support in dark post-War days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics have not fussed at their lack of profundity. "Wine Is My Weakness" and "With Eyes Like Thine...