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Fortunate children, these youngsters of the stars! For Hollywood has that kind of school that every little girl and boy has dreamed about
By Julie Lang Hunt
It all began ten years ago when Cecil B-.
eMille, Jack Holt, Will Rogers, Noah Beery id other film celebrities learned that the late arl Curtis, well-known physical culture special |t, and J. Howard Broadbent, an all-around ^ademic man, had devised a system whereby pysical and mental development were given ]ual importance in child education. | A more narrow, conventionalized community
ight have been afraid to start a school on such radical idea. But it sounded like sense to Hollywood. So stars, directors, producers, brought jeir children to the two educators, and school i-3gan.
Before the end of the first year, every parent I Hollywood was excited about what was happing to the youngsters at Curtis. ; Even the kindergarten babies had learned to 'vim. And all the grade children could speak jrench. Serious physical defects had been corseted by gymnastics. Timid children had
come social ring-leaders. Sullen ones had
The classrooms are planned for health and maximum comfort. Notice the adjustable desks and seats, movable so the child can move closer to the board or light if he needs. The blonde, bobbed haired youngster in the corner is Ruth, the daughter of Conrad Nagel
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Each youngster is given a carefully planned and well-balanced dinner at noon. Parents are requested to serve them only light suppers at night. The young man being served by the school dietitian is Richard Hoffman, son of Janet Beecher
The sunny California weather and the school's policies of health and freedom make it feasible to hold most of the classes out of doors. Here is the eighth grade, having history lesson in a sunny patio, beneath a big sunshade. And how hard they're studying!
acquired happy, normal dispositions. And the increase in each child's weight, general health and mental alertness brought the star-mothers and fathers in swarms to the doors of the Curtis School.
Almost immediately applications from private families as well as Hollywood's inner circles swamped the institution. It was necessary to place a limit on the student body, so it was set, and still is set, at eighty.
But the sturdy approval with which Hollywood looks up to the Curtis School is no mere fetish. I think the attitude of the
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