Cinema: Brushwork

Shirley Temple will not be a voter for another dozen years. But last week, from the hands of farseeing Politician James Aloysius Farley, Shirley had a lofty New Deal sinecure, viz., honorary national sponsor of the Post Office Department's current National Air-Mail Week. In appreciation, Shirley promptly did more to justify her Federal job than many a dauber on a Federal art project. Dimpling industriously between scenes of Little Miss Broadway, she toiled with brush and paintbox, turned out a sample of poster art which Postmaster General Farley lost no time circulating in all corners of the nation. Looking no more...

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