Word: children
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans of the Phillips Brooks House to incorporate medical and dental students in its social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical...
Medical and dental examination of Boston settlement house children is to be provided in the near future by the Phillips Brooks House Association, it was announced yesterday by J. H. Lane IG. B., graduate secretary of that organization. The work will be undertaken by students of the Medical and Dental Schools and will consist of diagnostic examination only...
...outlining the plan, Lane explained that reports of the ordinary school examiners are not obtainable by parents. As a result, children physically deficient have been allowed to engage in athletics and their health has in many cases been permanently impaired. To remove this danger, the Phillips Brooks House has undertaken to assure for all children in the care of the settlement houses, examinations, the diagnoses of which will be placed in the hands of the parents with recommendations for treatment. The secretaries of the settlement houses will endeavor to have attended all cases requiring medical or dental attention...
...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 the leads but the quintet of children, vivacious and at all times natural, almost steal the show from the two stars on several occasions...
...theme of the picture in short is this: the quibbling couple who have been married, divorced, and married again, have no time for their children, and as a result the oldest daughter, Judie, played by Mary Brian, has the whole tribe on her hands. From then on the entire show is a rapid succession of quarrels, peace gatherings and cocktail parties. The warring couple finally declare truce for good, Judie marries the ever-present family-friend, in the person of Mr. March, and the two take all the children under their wing...