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...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
That broke Friedrich Froebel's heart, he died soon afterward. Last week fell not only the centenary of the kindergarten but Friedrich Froebel's birthday, and 750,000 restless U. S. kindergarteners had to sit still on their little red chairs long enough to hear his story...
...under their derricks and came running toward the pile. Fathers and mothers, 100 of whom had been attending a meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association in the school gymnasium, rushed up white-faced. From the shining school buses lined up to take them home tumbled scores of scared kindergarten moppets to help dig under the debris from which appalling screams and cries could be heard. Slowly the diggers realized the extent of the tragedy as they found they had stretched, at the first count, 220 corpses on the ground. Many had been killed so quickly, by the force...
...death. When this situation has been straightened out by the surgical nurse (Margaret Lindsay) who was on the case, and when Dr. Paige has risked his life in a foolhardy experiment to find a spotted-fever serum, there is not much left of Green Light except the sediment of kindergarten metaphysics which gave the book its mass appeal. In the picture, this sediment is represented by Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Dean Harcourt, a strangely overwrought clergyman who, when the other characters come to him for counsel, expounds to them his naïve conception of human affairs. "I like...
...newsreels of her winning performance at Garmisch in last year's Winter Olympic Games. Superbly photographed by Cameraman Eddie Cronjager, earlier sequences of Skater Henie practicing for the Olympics on an Alpine pond, later ones of her leading an ice-ballet in Madison Square Garden, may be kindergarten to Skater Henie. Audiences are likely to find them the brilliant crystallization of a levitationist's dream...