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...Crocus (by C. L. Anthony: Lee Shubert, producer). Fanny saved up her money to take a little trip through the Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked...
Demure Actress Patricia Collinge shyly impersonates the kindergarten teacher. From the highly successful London production comes curly-headed Francis Lederer to act the innkeeper. He is a Czech. The friendly sound of South German English slips pleasantly from his lips. As she left the premiere, Cinemactress Constance Bennett was heard to remark: "Is he divine, is he divine or is he divine...
...mother said her little girl visited her grandparents and came home with a prayer taught her by her grandmother, which the mother felt was a merited rebuke. Another said her child learned little prayers and grace at table at the kindergarten or preschool, which relieved her very much as she wanted her child to pray but had not taught her any prayers because she did not like "Now, I lay me" and thought the Lord's Prayer too long and difficult lor a child...
That children should be sent to school -nursery school or kindergarten-as early as the fourth or fifth year, is a theory held by many U. S. educators. Dissent came last week from Dr. David Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The ninth or tenth year, said he, is soon enough, save for children from economically and socially unsuitable homes. For children on farms, in villages and suburbs, in all but the largest cities, there is environment favorable to natural, wholesome growth. Let such children play until they are 10; intellectual and social development can come later...
Words are among the first things an individual learns and among the last he forgets. Each year that one goes to school, from kindergarten to college, he acquires new sets of words. These sets are measurements of his intelligence, or his "vocabulary age." To get norms by which to gauge the demented, Dr. Babcock tested nurses, doctors, Harvard students, maids, clerks and others rated non-psychotic as samples of the run of mankind...