Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for improved graduate housing and eating facilities is generally agreed upon, and Dean Landis' Plan seems to offer the germ of the solution. If adoption of the proposal and the suggested method of financing it prove feasible after investigation, the graduate students will be promoted from their present orphan status to their rightful place around the University hearth...
...public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
Poor little Orphan Connie (Deanna Durbin) is endowed with nothing in this world but a lyrical larynx and a gruff, rich uncle, who has supported her through the hardships of a swank finishing school. She is disappointed when he does not come to her graduation, but climbs bravely into the limousine he sends in loco parentis. She needs all her courage when it deposits her among his screwy family. Auntie is horoscopic, Cousin Barbara is spoiled, Cousin Walter just asks apprehensively: "Does she still sing?" Bulb-eyed, bulgy Uncle Jim (Eugene Pallette, who has had experience as father...
...Unexpected Father" is the delightful story of three young people-Auer, Dennis O'Keefe, and Shirley Ross-trying to keep Hollywood's new gaglette, Baby Sandy, out of the clutches of an orphan asylum. Sandy goes goo-goo and the audience goes ga-ga and so the picture goes humorously along...
...style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim...