Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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THE TRUE STORY OF SYLVIA SIDNEY Little Sylvia (left), the misunderstood child to whom bread and butter became a menace more terrible than anyone could possibly believe. The bread and butter, in fact, brought on a crisis in Sylvia's young life. (Below) With Buster Collier, Jr., in "Street Scene," Sylvia's latest success. By ADELE WHITELY FLETCHER IT was very still in the little room. The way it is in church when there is silent prayer. Across the crib the eyes of the young mother and father met. Then, gently, Beatrice Sidney stooped to kiss her baby's tiny hand. "She will be free, Sigmund," Beatrice said softly. "Our little Sylvia . . . ." The man came around to his wife's side. He understood. "Free," he said. "That is a beautiful word." The hands of the clock on the bedside table warned him to hurry. No patient must be kept waiting in Sig 26 mund Sidney's dental office a few blocks away. Especially now with Sylvia to think of, too. Sylvia . . . she was born knowing things most people never know. As a baby she never gurgled with rapture at the rattle hung with silver bells and engraved with her pretty name. Instead she regarded it with grave green eyes. And growing older, she rarely played with her dolls. Instead she preferred a tablet of drawing paper and colored crayons. School she loathed. Boys she hated. And girls she found, only a very little better. It used to worry Beatrice and Sigmund Sidney that Sylvia's voice never mingled with the voices of the neighborhood