Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Mr. Roosevelt failed his final examinations at Columbia Law School, but managed to pass his New York bar examination in 1907. Three years later he ran as a Democrat for the State Senate in the Hyde Park district. Because the 26th district had, with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking...
...idealism of Woodrow Wilson appealed to Senator Roosevelt. He traveled to Trenton, interviewed Governor Wilson, returned to start booming him for President. When Wilson won in 1912, he made the pleasant young man from Hyde Park his Assistant Secretary of the Navy. After 15 years the Navy was glad enough to have another Roosevelt...
During his three years at Albany, Governor Roosevelt divided his time between the oldfashioned, musty executive mansion, his estate at Hyde Park, his town house on East 65th Street in Manhattan and Warm Springs. He has traveled much about the state, visiting every county, making countless speeches. He has cruised its waterways on extensive inspection trips. Never have his crippled legs deterred him from going where he would...
...happiest hours Mr. Roosevelt passes at Hyde Park in the house his father bought in 1866 and in which he was born. It is old and colonial. Its clapboard sides have been stuccoed and a stone wing added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here...
Director Rouben Mamoulian added to the story a few Freudian touches. He made Hyde an incarnation of primitive sadism rather than a London bogeyman who was bad without good reason. Fredric March, ably assisted by Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart, is magnificent as Hyde, and he gives Jekyll a stilted Victorian elegance which, being a little false, makes Hyde's existence seem more credible. Good shot: Jekyll turning into Hyde as he watches a cat stalk a sparrow...