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...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...
Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful...
...Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry Aldrich (Ezra Stone), a cross between Penrod and Willie Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing, rumpled, rattled, rueful by turns, Henry grows into that rare thing on the stage...
...were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch was cast in Penrod & Sam. Again he and Billy took turns acting and. standing-in. When Warners drew up a new contract, Mrs. Mauch refused to let one son perform as stand-in for the other on the ground that it might give him an inferiority complex. When studio executives demurred, Mrs. Mauch threatened...
...Penrod (Billy Mauch) is chief of a private G-man organization, Sam (Harry Watson) his trusty right-hand man. At first Penrod's life is complicated only by the trouble he is always getting into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow...