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Lectures on Leave. The son of an Episcopal minister, Forbes started his first museum in his own attic in Stamford, Conn., often trotted over to ask the advice of his famed neighbor, Naturalist William T. Hornaday. He studied zoology and ornithology at the State University of Iowa and Bowdoin College, later became curator of a special natural history collection in Stamford. While serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant in Alabama, he carried on his work. On days off, he managed to raise enough money for a museum in Geneva, Ala., spent his leaves lecturing and showing movies in schools...
Over the years, Forbes's National Foundation for Junior Museums. Inc. (formerly the William T. Hornaday Memorial Foundation) has left its mark on scores of communities. In 1943, Forbes blew into Nashville, helped raise $15,000 to open a junior museum in an old stone house, started it off with exhibits from Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution. Then he moved on to Jacksonville, Fla. and Charlotte.N.C...
Asked the Christian Science Monitor's Mary Hornaday: "I have been asked to inquire whether you consider it a justifiable gift?" Replied Mrs. Roosevelt: "It was given to me to popularize that particular brand of mink. The gentlemen who presented it asked me to keep it, and I thought it would be ungracious to turn around and give it away...
...Prince, Frank Hornaday uses his penetrating tenor voice to advantage in delivering the well-known "Deep In My Heart," in a duet, and "Serenade," backed by the chorus. At times he is a little insincere in a role requiring deep sentimentalism and emotionalism; but on the whole his musical performance is good enough to hold up his slightly weak histrionic performance...
...settle back for three delightful acts of life to the strains of Schubert. Hence you overlook a lot of unconvincing acting, and laugh off a lot of beery buffoonery as largely irrelevant pleasantry. The only strict demand to be made is for good singing, and Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday, Marie Nash and Martha Errolle give Schubert a very fair treatment. If you like light operetta, and it's a dreadful boor who doesn't "Blossom Time" is among the best...