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...children he felt should come from imported U. S. cows. The Embassy, if Congress proves willing, will be pure colonial in style, with a good chance that patriots will start a fund to fill it with such sturdy colonial reproductions as Mrs. Roosevelt's craftsmen make at her Val-Kill furniture shop...
...girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country place at Warm...
...mocking burlesque peculiar to the puppet, color schemes and settings by Bruno Angoletta are forceful and direct. The leading puppets preserve the illusion of being life size while the "business" in the show is carried on by "minor puppets" carved by peasants of the wood-carving school of Val Gardena, Alps...
...like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With her in the Presidential box were her son James, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Mrs. Mary Howe Baker, daughter of Roosevelt Secretary-Crony Louis McHenry Howe, and Miss Nancy Cook, Mrs. Roosevelt's partner in the Val Kill furniture factory...
...added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here lives Governor Roosevelt's elderly mother. Both women take very good care of the Governor when he comes down from Albany for weekends to live the life of a squire of Hyde Park. He looks after...