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...involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother teams up with the Viscount. When an aggressive American schoolgirl tries to seduce Christopher, they send him to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat Book | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Questioned upon the cancellation, Miss Charlotte Bradley, captain of the schoolgirl net-wielders admitted keen disappointment on the part of the student body, but hoped that the Crimson would come just the same, substituting baseball bats for their sticks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAVER GIRLS CHALLENGE '40 ON DIAMOND; SPURN LACROSSE | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

...other picture is "Ready Willing, and Able". The title is descriptive of Miss Ruby Keeler's position, for she's just a schoolgirl, desperate to play on Broadway, who attains her end by pretending to be a famous English star. She's so ready, so willing, and so very able that she wins both her way to fame and the producer's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tacoma Snatch | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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