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...Woodruffs are already there when the Crawfords come up?Jack Crawford, successful commercial artist; Susannah, his silent, handsome, able wife and their daughter Judith, turning 17, a modern, vivacious youngster. Prissy, gossipy Mrs. Nettleton and her sister Miss Kitty are looking forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation...
Clista Millspaugh, a chunky (127 lb.), (5 ft. 5 i in.) youngster (17 yr.) who lives on a farm at Mount Pleasant. Iowa, was in Chicago last week to recite her little speech. Recited she: "I eat all kinds of food we have on the farm and I get lots of work, play and sleep. I love to milk cows, and pitch hay, and ride horses, and play baseball and basketball...
When Clark was a youngster, he and his friend Hal discovered an old cutter, shored up but with timbers still sound. They spent happy hours putting her in shape; Virginia and Grace helped them. The four planned to sail away together until money ran short. Hal skipped out promising to return. Clark married Virginia. Years passed. After his wife died Clark took to the sea, but it was too late for roving. He preferred the lightship where time stands still...
...Emerson, Lionel Barrymore wiggles his eyebrows as skillfully as ever, and Franchot Tone, as usual, gives an ingratiatingly juvenile performance. But it is the presence of Jean Harlow that supplies the picture with its vital humor. Good shot: Eadie jumping off the Paige yacht when she learns that the youngster she mistook for a bookkeeper...
...last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood. Now he was an Archbishop, second youngest...