Word: waif
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Stowaway exhibits Shirley Temple as Ching-Ching, an exiled waif, hopping around Shanghai and looking cut for chances. Her missionary parents have been killed by outlaws and she is on the town. When it starts raining. Ching-Ching crawls into the rumble seat of a roadster, closes the top. The roadster, which belongs to a playboy named Tommy Randall (Robert Young), goes aboard a ship bound for San Francisco...
where Carrie (Gladys George) lives, little Paul Darnley (Jackie Moran), who has a sick mother and a sadist father, goes for sympathy which Carrie gives him. Forced to leave town, she returns after Paul is orphaned, takes him and a girl waif called Lady (Charlene Wyatt) to live in New York. Ten years later, a dry-cleaning business has made Carrie rich. Paul (John Howard) is a literary agent and Lady (Arline Judge) hopes to be his bride...
...romance of Cradle of Life deals with an aristocratic fachook who grew up in one of these peasant households, escaped it only to find that its ties were too strong to be broken. Learning to love his pathetic, awkward foster mother, Rudo Stanka suffered agony each time a new waif was brought to the poverty-ridden hut to die. He did not solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and thus...
...Captain January" is all about a small waif (guess who) cast up by the sea on a lighthouse rock, and two ancient mariners, one of whom keeps the light and unofficially adopts Miss Temple (Guy Kibbee), and the other of whom (Slim Summerville) attempts to alienate her affections by giving her a dancing crane, whom Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether...
...Waif right under the skin is brother...