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...story seemed sound enough, but in its time We, the People has been hoaxed roundly, mostly before Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back...
Died. Walter Costello Kelly, 65, famed vaudeville actor ("The Virginia Judge"), brother of Dramatist George Kelly and Philadelphia Democratic Boss John B. Kelly; of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile; in Philadelphia. A machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim" Sullivan mistook him for a prominent Virginia politician, asked him to a Bowery clubhouse's annual meeting. When called on to make a speech, he told stories he had heard in a Virginia court, brought down the house...
...bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least appetizing shot: the greedy members of the Cratchit family gleefully fingering the pitiful corpse of their uncooked Christmas goose...
...with a total weekly attendance of 150,000. Of British children, 83% like newsreels, 94% like military & naval scenes, 89% like shots of royalty, 88% dislike foreign dictators. British children's favorite stars in order of their popularity are Hollywood's Buck Jones, Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy...
Captain Green, Cliff Wilson, Don Daughters, Ken Booth, Austie Harding, Frank Foley, Dave Glueck, Nick Mellen, Tim Russell, Chief Boston, Mike Cohen, Ben Smith, Win Jameson, Jim Fearon and Bob Burnett played their last game for Harvard. They will meet tomorrow with Joe Gardella, Torb Macdonald, Tom Healey, Bill Coleman, Mose Hallett and don Lowry, the other lettermen, to elect next year's captain