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...Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From the moment when the three little Craig girls dash into a hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig...
...remarkable speed. They are the most beautiful natural acrobats and think nothing of swinging across a forty feet clearing and catching a pigeon in mid-air on the way over. They have the most perfect sense of timing. One gibbon pet in Indo-China used to juggle precious china cups or plates in the air without ever breaking...
Last week the trustees indignantly announced that vandals had invaded the park, cut loose more than a ton of track-bearing sandstone with pneumatic drills, carted the precious material away. The police were without a clue. Mr. Pellissier hired a watchman. At week's end the vandals had not offered their booty to the most likely buyer-Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester...
...just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment of an export tax of $150 Mexican ($45 U. S.). Then, just as she had given...
...very difficult to react intelligently toward "Lady Precious Stream," In all honesty it must be confessed that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen...