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The present wave of juvenile Cain-raising traced to the children living in tenements adjacent to the Houses and the Law School offers a problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD END | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

The pictures bore no resemblance to the popular caricature of child prodigies with spectacles and top-heavy craniums. More handsome than the average, Speyer's merry-faced youngsters were shown running and laughing like the perennially peptic urchins in magazine advertisements. Only their activities were unusual-playing chess, repairing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fast Learners | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

THE MERRY, MERRY MAIDENS-Helen Grace Carlisle-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). An ordinary novel about six ordinary maidens, taking them unmerrily from innocent girls-club days through to wistful disillusionment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

The Perfect Specimen (Warner Bros.) experiments with the solemn hypothesis that a boy may be nurtured to-all-round perfection in a sort of social vacuum; but that when he is tested against assorted worldliness he will relapse into human frailty. Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, a godlike young man of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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