Cinema: Christmas Waifs

Because they usually have to work & play too hard and go to bed too early, the 12 million small fry who compose a substantial element of the U. S. cinema audience cannot get to the theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's...

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