Educational readers theater is a way to have a historical character come alive.  With musical bumpers and fans, hard wood panels, and large podium, Eleanor spoke up once again across the culture of our times reminding us that human kindness is not easily spun into the common concourse of politics without sweat equity, applied vision, and courage.

As a first time debut, in an 1877 venue, Ms. Bo Lebo read Mrs. Roosevelt to a wide spectrum of citizens to an audience from as far away as Arizona and as cross town as Santa Monica, from Korea Town, from the Valley, from Beverly Hills and Panorama City. A snapsnot of Los Angeles' sanctuary policies and megacity culture, Mrs. Roosevelt held the crowd's attention by telling her own personal story.

The First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles with its beautiful paneled walls set the scene for the "first lady of the world" in Glenn Hopkins' screen play short overview originally written in Los Angeles and tested over the last 10 years of development.  Originally produced in many languages to anchor the importance of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt family and specifically feature Eleanor, Glenn set the tone by playing a musical piece by Etta James.

Framed by accordion played by the playwright and a ballad "A traitor to her class", a vignette readers theater was created in short form for an hour on June 28^th.

Mootney Theatre's director mounted the reading with attendees from the English, Spanish, Korean community from the Los Angeles's Supervisoral Districts 1,2,3 area surrounding the church.  Bo was able to draw on the unique breadth of audience culture by drawing out not just the listeners, but the small service dog that also attended and barked with the applause.

Covering issues from the American South, to family, from love and affection, to parenting, the program was contemporary, meaningful, and informative.  Mrs. Roosevelt posed for pictures with the audience.  She made sure to remind those listening that there was still much to do and one must follow one's heart.  She stood on their White House accomplishments in 4 terms and bade everyone to keep their ground on great ideas and not desert them.  "We hear your prayers…."  "Don't give up…."

Mrs. Roosevelt is meaningful and significant even now.  Perhaps that is why some people are touting her for the competition to be the next woman on a paper $20 bill.  A woman of her time, but a woman for all time.  If you are not sure, watch PBS, read historical documents, read a great historian or hear her on overdrive....  Even find one of her unsung books in your library reference stacks....It's up to the Women or another book or article.  Find out about adoption, business, social security and the WIA to many, many issues, options, and solutions posed by the Roosevelts that impact us continually even today.

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Mrs. Roosevelt tells Hilary and those who will follow not to give up.

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Glenn Hopkins:

http://www.glennhopkins.o00a.com/1/0016a

Adopted Children:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/mrs-roosevelts-adopted-children

Eleanor Roosevelt:

http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366#life-after-the-white-house

Teaching Eleanor:

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/

She didn't fly, but she travelled:

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/maps/main_map.html

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/contact/

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/erbiography.cfm

Letter to the DAR:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html

Marianne Anderson and the First Lady:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/

Peace Corps:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/eleanor-prospects-mankind/

www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html

Historical background, other songs and history or lynchings (God Bless America and Kate Smith- Irving Berlin)

http://www.justanothertune.com/html/ib-gba.html

Hilary on the Campaign trial:

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/why-hillary-dropped-eleanor-roosevelt-121444393196.html

Emily's List:

http://www.emilyslist.org/

Snapes and Rickman…promoting women roles of a unique, fantastic nature:

Why not create new roles for women ...posed by AR?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Snape

Abundance of Chaos at Versailles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSjt4naxlE