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Mary, the six-months-old daugh- tor of Mr. and Mrs. L. Marshall, of Bont-lane, Offenham. Evesham, Worcestershire, is regarded by Dr. Wyndham Parker, the county me- dical officer, as the most wonderful baby in Great Britain.
"If Charlie Ruggles doesn't this year get one of those awards given by somebody or other for the premier comedy-neting of the season, then a let of people are going to be dis- appointed. For the eminently furny Air. Ruggles has a big following among the honoured gentry who take (or leave), their amusement on
At birth she weighed only lib. the talking screen and he'll add thou-lez, and was one of twins born sands to the hosts of Ruggles ad- promaturely. The other baby mirers after The Girl Habit” geta Wolghed 2oz, less but lived only clrculated around the country.
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Mary was so tiny that a small This pleture, showing at the King's ten-cup would have covered her Theatre caused audiences there head, and it was impossible for. to brick with laughter. The plot is not a complicated one.
some time to define hor sex. For It slocan't have to be, for the abundant month she lay wrapped in cotton comedy situations provide all the com. wool, massaged with olive oil, and plications required to give Ruggles fed every two hours day and night. full play for his gchlus as a fun. To the astonishment of the doc maker. His own deft style of making tors she made progress, in spite laughs grow where another lesser of a set-back when six weeks old, comedian would fall is shown to great and now waighs more than 11ib., advantage in this farce,
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"Grumpy"—and here I am." the chase of all girls and centres hisDenver, Col., while he was visiting in Maude made his stage debut in devotion on Sue Conroy, society de- butante, to whom he becomes engaged. America to recover from a youthful The prepartions for their marriage illness. During his long career he are blighted by the appearance of an has appeared in command perform. ...flaine with bundle of old love-ancen before the late King Edward letters from Charlie. At Arst she VII and the present King George V threatens to blackmail him, but later of England; relents, promising to hand over the
"Sporting Blood," damaging
epikties if he will Learning Jargon of the race-track come to her apartment. When ke and the Intriente art of "dealing from arriven, there he is diacovered by her the bottom," "Stacking the Deck" and Jealous husband a though gangster, so forth is almost like going to school who swears he will "get" Charlie. all over again. At least, so says Low The enaning events keep Charlle in Cody. Lew "eame_home" to the a proplonged rtate of "hot water." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where He must dodge the gangster, keep :the ex-flame out of sight, and pre to play his first role here since his vrst his fancy and her mother from recent illness in "Sporting Blood," discovering his Tight I finally based on the Saturday Evening Post has to get himself arrested to elude story "Hoeflesh" by Frederick the pursing gangster and his mob Hazlitt Brennan. But even in fall his troubles continue, The role was that of Tip Scanlon, for the old "girl habit"
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