Word: playground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style, are in The Marriage Playground. It is handsomely staged, conscientiously acted, unreal, inane. Numerous precocious stage children do their specialties as Mary Brian, the oldest and best-looking of the family, gives them their cues. Silliest shot: the cocktail council on the beach...
...Marriage Playground", movie adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of the game name, Paramount has assembled such a host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have...
...actual conduct of classes in various high school subjects, such as French, algebra, history, and English, is the form of apprenticeship provided for those who expect to be teachers in secondary schools. Other forms of apprenticeship are used for those who are in training for careers in school administration, playground work, vocational guidance, educational measurement, and other forms of educational service, outside of teaching...
Practical work in testing, vocational counseling, and the directing of playground and recreation centers is comparatively easy to arrange. In administration it is possible to secure opportunity for participation in school surveys, statistical studies of school records, the formulation of building programs, and similar activities. It is naturally impossible to give full apprenticeship to inexperienced students in the management of a school or school system. A partial apprenticeship, however, is provided in connection with every curriculum for the Ed.M., and students may at least be tested as to some of the qualities and skills that are necessary in the work...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...