Word: waif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marian Nixon is Rebecca, a semi-waif who has to live with two crusty old aunts because her father is dead and her mother has no money. She is lonely; she tries to run away. She runs to a young Doctor Ladd. He persuades her to stay with the aunts. When she is supposed to be at a prayer meeting, she rides with the doctor on his rounds. They go to a house where a lady is having a baby. Rebecca does not get home until morning. Her aunts are furious. One of them has caught pneumonia going...
...using every resource to favor the circulation of capital and procure a renaissance of public riches." Next day many a Madrid editor accused President Alcala Zamora of "living like a king" and "wasting public moneys." Mrs. Alcala Zamora created a diversion by announcing she had picked up a "homeless waif," restored the waif publicly to its parents...
...Though the title is a delusion, it is not likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities for the cinema which have...
...with lyrics by one who can write them almost as well as Lorenz Hart: Edward Eliscu. For their production the Brothers Shubert have retained the services of a number of comely girls, some Albertina Rasch dancers with wooly heads, and Queenie Smith. Ingenuous, flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening does not come off quite as she plans. But she manages to flirt, sing, dance...
...superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor...