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...good fortune meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance has also the charm of being the least camera-conscious. So far as Tommy was concerned, he never acted at all: "All I did was what I was told...
...tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even the late great La Argentina might have envied...
...Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, who volunteered, Dr. Moran made two parallel slices from the left armpit straight down the side to the left hip. This week Dr. Moran will separate the strip of skin between the incisions from the underlying flesh and clip the long edges together to make a tube attached at one end to the boy's armpit, the other to his hip. As the bared flesh heals, new blood vessels will form in the tube of flesh -blood vessels which will nourish it during the next and more difficult stage...
This next step will make the boy and girl for a time virtual Siamese twins. Dr. Moran will cut the upper end of the tube of skin free from John's armpit and sew the end into the flesh of Clara's scarred abdomen. For five weeks the children will lie bandaged immovably together while John's blood nourishes the tube of flesh from one end until gradually-if the operation is successful-Clara's blood joins in nourishing it from the other. This it will presumably do without difficulty because John and Clara have...
When the graft attaches itself to Clara, Dr. Moran will sever the tube of skin from John's hip, swing the tube across Clara's abdomen, and fix the end in her flesh. When that operation heals, Dr. Moran will perform the final stage of the graft. He will slit the sausage-like tube from end to end, spread it flat upon the girl's abdomen to attach itself soundly...