Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First socialites to have themselves lugged to the track by hand were Katherine Wait, Kathleen Kennedy and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's half-sister, Gloria Baker...
Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...
Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...
...axioms of the sport. Encouraging to coaches, who expect serious competition at next year's Olympic games, was the demonstration at last week's meet that new swimmers are now arriving on the scene not singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach last week, four more families of swimmers - the Hopkins twins of Miami Beach...
...senior Olympic trials, in which her entry was accepted only after Mrs. Hoerger had hired a lawyer to persuade the committee that she was not too young to compete. Experts expect that Mary Hoerger's most serious rival for her new title may be her small sister. Helen Hoerger could swim 40 ft. at 11 months, dive from a 30-ft. tower at 4 years. Now almost 6 and weighing 46 lb., she dives better than her sister did at the same...