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France's precocious (10) Poetess Minou Drouet was starring in a movie titled Clara and the Crooks, a sentimental tale about a lovable tyke who reforms a gang of bandits through her inexorable sweetness and innocence. During a recess at the suburban Paris studio, little Minou chirped excitedly about her film career: "We have had several scenarios offered to us, but I didn't like them. In one of the stories I was supposed to strangle a dog. Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save...
...untried, young sub-freshman at Vassar is being treated this year (and, we suspect, every year) to a little booklet which tells in a chatty down-Poughkeepsie sort of way what the little tyke has in store for her. She is warned, before the book is four pages done, that Vassar offers no course in writing poetry: the book opens with the verselet, "Letters, pamphlets, luncheons, teas--/Until the Freshman thinks she sees/Just what Vassar has in store. /But the following year will tell the score...
...which the writer was born. The disadvantage of the escapee is that he is obliged to change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...
...Wild Oat (Carroll Pictures) is a baby boy, sown by a French soldier and reaped by a village belle of Provence. This wild oat is somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa. As the headstrong village baker, Fernandel is volubly insistent that his son would never do such a thing, refuses to recognize the infant as a descendant...
...became lost last night when Clarence and Joan (Smith '34) wandered off. Miss MacNamarra can be claimed at 14 Plympton Street, the home of the Harvard CRIMSON, during working hours. These are from 6-5 a.m. Miss MacNamarra, who was called by Cliff Thompson, CRIMSON President, a "cute little tyke," came into the building early last evening. "I always wanted to see how a real newspaper is put out," she said. All former editors and any one sharing Miss MacNamarra's curiosity are cordially invited to visit the CRIMSON building...