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...Adam Had Four Sons is not satisfied with this homey tranquillity. Soon Mrs. Stoddard dies, the fortune is wiped out, the governess shipped back home...
Adam Had Four Sons (Columbia). As the stock market is crashing during the 1907 panic, Broker Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) casually tells his secretary: "There's nothing wrong with me that my family won't cure." Forthwith he bustles off to his wife (Fay Wray) and four sons, comfortably settled in an ample Connecticut establishment enlivened by an attractive young governess (Ingrid Bergman). As the Stoddard family bounces along in their touring car or gobbles a big Thanksgiving dinner, they give a pretty picture of opulent early 20th-century existence...
...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...
...with a violin: the artist's idea of symbolizing the fact that in Pennsylvania grandchildren are liable for the support of their grandparents. Vincent Maragliotti, ecclesiastical painter, showed the court as an angel in pursuit of a husband who has deserted his wife and child. Alice Kent Stoddard, Philadelphia painter of children, made a sedate, fuzzy mural of children building a city of tomorrow, with her Maltese cat in one corner. Another mural, by Benton Spruance, Beaver College art teacher, did not seem to prove anything about the Law. It showed a Philadelphia family waiting...
...four and a half year old Commission, created by the National Education Association to chart national policies, is a kind of spiritual adviser to the schools. It includes such bigwig pedagogues as Philadelphia's Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard, Cornell's President Edmund E. Day, U. S. Commissioner John W. Studebaker. To big-city school superintendents and crossroads schoolhouses, the Commission last week sent a fervent orange-covered booklet-Education and the Defense of American Democracy...