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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 9

A museum of Jewish antiquities has been opened at Frankfurt-on-Main, in the ancestral house of the Bothschild family, built in the old Frankfurt Ghetto after the great fire in 1796. Tho stately building where the banking firm of M. A. Rothschild and Sons had its premises till it was closed in 1901 has been transferred to the Jewish community of Frankfurt-on-Main, which placed the new museum on the first floor. The private offices of the former heads of the firm, with the old furniture and many valuable family portraits, were left as they were found. The other rooms were turned into a regular museum. The collection of Jewish antiquities is already very large, and contains objects of great historical and artistic value. The greater part of the collection belongs to the Museum Society; .other objects have been lent by private collectors, by the Jewish community, and by the Frankfurt Historical Museum. Some of th 6 best works of art to be found' in the collection came out of ancient synagogues. Tho American Museum of Natural History recently inaugurated an interesting educational experiment among the children of New York. The museum authorities gave a series of daily showings of films designed to display primitive life in all its aspects, beginning with the picture of Hiawatha. The life of the Eskimos among their natural surroundings was thrown on the screen, and so were the great animals of tropical Asia. Another picture enabled the youngsters to get a visualisation of the savages of Borneo. The response of the children to the opportunity was instant. Two or three showings had to be made every day to accommodate the children, who flocked to the auditorium in numbers ranging from about 500 to three or four times that number for each performance. The conduct of the boys and girls during the showings was impressive. There was no sign of restlessness; no indication of disorder. They listened silently, almost tensely, and the only violations of the rule of silence were the shrill outbursts of laughter provoked by humorous situations.