Word: truants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken. On the grounds that little Star is being carelessly reared, the truant officer will try to take her away from her kindly Captain January, put her in an institution...
Edward Arnold, whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor...
...last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...
...from Detroit's public schoolrooms. One day ten black pupils would be reported missing and the next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam...
Last week truant officers & police bore down on the school in earnest, seized textbooks, carted John Mohammed, 24-year-old leader of the cult, Tadar Ali, Allar Cushmeer and ten other instructors off to jail. This time they found only two pupils, but some 400 were on the school rolls...