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Kiss and Tell is especially notable for the work of three young people who combine the homespun qualities of the kid next door with the zany hilarity of the Marx Brothers. One is Darryl Hickman, who plays the omnipresent Pringle moppet. Another is the gawky Courtland, a deadpan, loose-jointed adolescent who can get a laugh by just saying: "Holy cow!" But the most expert of all is Shirley Temple herself, now a first-rate comedienne and a very attractive young lady. While spending her early teens in comparative obscurity, Shirley forgot none of the tricks that once made...
Jinny was "a half-tamed hawk of a girl, twenty-three or four, not tall, smiling, lively of eye. . . . 'Be an exciting kid to know,' thought Timberlane...
...funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
...barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...