Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

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Mrs. Roosevelt contrives by some amazing economy of time and energy to do the work it would ordinarily require three or four women to do. She not only manages her large household in the State Capitol while at the same time directing her New York menage which is always open, but she also heads a company formed by herself for the purpose of manufacturing replicas of early American furniture made by the country folk living near the estate belonging to Governor Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, "Hyde Park." This truly beautiful furniture — the mahogany Colonial desk before which Mrs. Roosevelt was seated was a sample of it — is sold and distributed in New York City through the Val-Kill Shop. And she teaches, as I have mentioned before, three days a week. Mrs. Roosevelt is vice-president of the famed Todhunter's School, where she adores her classes and is adored, in turn, by them. I asked Mrs. Roosevelt, if she used motion pictures with her teaching. "I presume most of the large private schools are equipped with motion picture projection machines, though I am not informed on the subject," she replied. "We, at the Todhunter's School, do not have projection equipment. Our membership is limited to only 100 pupils. But we do frequently ask our pupils to see special pictures at the theatres that we think will broaden their outlook and be of educational advantage. Or we take them to see the pictures ourselves. "There are countless splendid film productions of literary masterpieces and historical subjects. This type of picture is being used to advantage in many schools. At Groton. where mv younger sons are now studying, the Yale 'Chronicles of America' Series is shown as a visual supplement to American History courses. Such pictures as these are truly beneficial. "But I think it is generally conceded by serious educators that scientific films for the classroom have not really advanced far enough to be yet taken as important." Mrs. Roosevelt said that she and Governor Roosevelt were both very greatly interested in rural schools and rural education, and seeing life made more interesting to people living on back country roads who were shut in during the winter. She said that they feel that the motion picture would be of inestimable value if for no other reason than the contact with the world and with important personalities that they bring to isolated people. They wish that every crossroads school could be equipped with projection facilities so that country children might be inspired to achievement by seeing what the world beyond their own country road is like. A tall, graceful young woman with curling blonde hair and a charming smile, entered the office breezily to pick something up. "This is my daughter," Mrs. Roosevelt said, introducing the winsome caller, Mrs. Curtis Dall. I saw this daughter again a few days later in the same office occupying her mother's chair and busily assisting at the details of a new magazine called "Babies" which her illustrious mother, with not enough other things to keep her busy, has agreed to edit. She said the first motion pictures she remembered seeing were at children's parties, when she was a little girl. Mrs. Dall is the only daughter of the Franklin Delano family, and now has two children of her own. The other four Roosevelt children are boys. A trusted secretary was waiting to take the answers to the correspondence which had accumulated while the Governor's wife had been away to speak at Chatauqua, where she had been the guest of the wife of the great inventor of the motion picture, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. So we said farewell. "Motion pictures have a great work to do in the world," said Mrs. Roosevelt thoughtfully as we shook hands, "that of clearing away the differences between people and bringing to light their similarities, their oneness. Because of their great possibilities for good, we must guard against their equal possibilities in the opposite direction. Their opportunity is almost without limit to build up the fine, constructive things in our common life on earth." Mary and Mickey Continued from page 67 with flour, but I can't seem to remember what it was." Mickey, superb in yellow gloves and rose-colored boots, sat making notes while his hostess admired him. "I'd like to dress up like Mickey," she confided, "It wouldn't be much trouble, except for the nose, and I might get a piece of cork, paint it black and put it on with stickum. Dear Mickey, he has no chin to speak of. He can't be a very strong character, can he? I'm afraid my chin makes doubling for him out of the question." Her eyes were very big and brown, her curls very soft and gold. In her dainty blue skirt and sweater, with quaint puffed sleeves, she might have been a modern Alice contemplating one of the creatures from a new Wonderland. "But you want to hear about a Hallowe'en party. When Gwynne was thirteen, Douglas and I let her give one at Pickfair all by herself. We went out, so that the children should feel no restraint. I think that when a child has a party, no one should ever say 'Don't !' "I helped Gwynne decorate and we had pumpkins and witches, black cats and sheaves of corn everywhere. Gwynne fixed up a most gruesome-looking ghost in the room where they were to tell ghost stories, and when they'd told all the bloodcurdling tales they knew, Gwynne sent