Exhibition poster © Sadé Butler 2015 |
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Anon Children's game verse, recorded in Edinburgh UK, c1940—
Shirley Oneple.
Shirley Twople.
Shirley Threeple.
Shirley Fourple.
Shirley Fiveple.
Shirley Sixple.
Shirley Sevenple.
Shirley Eightple.
Shirley Nineple.
Shirley Tenple.
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Shirley Temple (Hollywood child film star)—
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six., Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph.
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Robert Craft, An Improbable Life (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), p. 147—
In 1953, he [Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky] broke off his connection with Hollywood's two Russian [Orthodox] churches, for the reason that the priest-confessor had asked him for his autograph.