Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peck's Bad Boy (Sol Lesser). Sure of pleasing the Legion of Decency and that large portion of the cinema public which considers Jackie Cooper's pout irresistibly affecting, Producer Sol Lesser quite properly thought it unnecessary to make this picture a faithful transcription of its original. Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel...
Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
Three of the beneficiaries quietly awaited their share of the money last week. But when Sister Mary Bertrand. Superioress of St. Joseph's Hospital, saw a newspicture of Mary Louise Peck as St. Joan, her vexation was great. She informed the Atlantic Beach Club that St. Joseph's Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor...
Said Mary Louise Peck's mother: "We are indignant. . . . We are annoyed...