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...Karl S. Bernhardt of Toronto's Institute of Child Study: "The rapid changes in the nature of advice to parents about child rearing . . . have led some to question whether parent education is desirable at all . . . Parent education which made parents more comfortable with their children, which helped them to understand them better and accept them more adequately could be valuable . . . Parent education which focuses too narrowly on techniques could produce anxieties, feelings of guilt and tensions in parents...
...Sarah Bernhardt, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft visited The Hights to pay their respects to California's poet laureate, but it became notorious for the succession of girls in their teens and 205 who stayed there and left rapt testimonials. Samples: "I was his Empress and the Hights was our Empire," "Joaquin was such a wonderful lover." Fearing for his own women relatives, Ambrose Bierce wrote down an emphatic promise: "If that woolly wolf, Joaquin Miller, doesn't keep outside the fold, I shall come down and club him soundly...
...much her acting that excited audiences; there were dozens of contemporaries who were better actresses, including Sarah Bernhardt. Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Nor was it her looks: she was, if anything, plain, with large, astonished eyes and a nose slightly off-center. The magic seemed to be in her gentle, fluty voice and in her personality -the curious way she had of tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time...
...meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with the President of the U.S. or God Almighty...
...years passed, Zukor bought up hundreds of theaters; he imported Sarah Bernhardt's film. Queen Elizabeth, and made an unheard-of profit of $20,000. Then he began plugging away at moviemaking, hiring famous stage stars to act before the cameras. His movie company, Famous Players, later became Paramount Pictures Corp., and Adolph Zukor became one of Hollywood's first tycoons. For the past 15 years, as chairman of the board, he has been content to spend most of his time in Paramount's Manhattan offices. But last week he was the toast of filmdom...