Priscilla is a Star at Nine

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

Priscilla is a Star at Nine

Guardiansh ip Question HOLLYWOOD LEGAL BATTLE little Priscilla Moran, nine years old earns somewhere between. 000 and 1000 dollars a week working m th Shc°*is a talented child, rather grave, and her large eyes arc looking wistfully out upon the world as three women seek her custody. Priscilla is an orphan. Her mother died when she was scarcely more than a babe. Her father died m Tucson. Arizona, last March. ... Priscilla has been living vvith Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ragland in Hollywood In a Los Angeles court the other day these two told Judge C. W . Miller that before Priscillas father died he asked them to adopt and care lo Then caine Mrs. Ella Smith Schaber, of Oklahoma, who testified that the father had made a similar request to her and that the Oklahoma courts already have given her legal possession of the girl. The third to make claim to Priscilla is Mrs. Margaret Moran Becker, of Long Beach, her father s Possession of the c.hild means a splendid income. Priscilla looks on wide-eyed at the legal battle. She does not know where her new home will be. Somehow she seems to be a very sad little orphan, although she has ad- \ mirers by the thousands.