New Britain herald., 1930-07-01
Mother and Two Daug ghters Build International
 Picture Business

 and for them-the Bonney mother
 Therese it was who started the international picture service they run with all it amifications; Therese, a dynamo of hard driving energy, assurance and infanible business sense; Therese who be- gan her career by becoming a na- tionally known precocious high. brow when. at the age Of IS or so, she took her masters degree in romance languages at Columbia ard proceeded to France 10 os- come the fourth woman to get 2 h. D. at the Sorbonne, taking it in the French drama.
 T guess l resented the insinua fons of my friends and relatives that l was just a non-producing intellectual Therese eXplainad her business start, pausng in the midst of packing 10 do 90. She was just returning to Paris (she makes the trip here four or five times year) and hat, dress and shoe boxes, flowers. books and @ on flowed into the modernistic studio office the firm maintains m the elegant upper Fortes,
 Made Hobby Vocation
 T had picked up photography a. q pastime and to get the right pictures for some articles l wrote. " Therese continued. T enjoyed i, so much l decided 10 capitalize nv passion for shots at unusual an eles and of unusual subjects Rut no paper would give me q single order, Going to Paris d few years ago, g0t the ships carpenter 10 make me some small wooden yio- llns and other musical ins.ra- mcnts, staRed Walter Damrosca. leading child's orchestra. and took the picture from high up, looking down and aslant al thom. sent that and nine other pir- tures back. Eight were acceptc1 l and all Of them appeared in a roto section""
 That Was all energetic Therese rceded 10 make her sure she WAS right, She sailed into exclusi1n T t'arlslan couturier establishments, took such exquisite pictures Of thelr creations that she got entry where all others had failed. Then she went into photo-raphing inte- rlors, e&ter!ors. everything from pure art 10 eadgets. Finally she launched the first international picture bureau 10 be run by wo- man, No" she has three photog- raphers, two laboratories, six sec rctaries in Paris, Her pictur. s appear here and on the continent lo papers, better class magazines, artistic and scientific publications and have illustrated several booi s or modern architecture and sci ence
 Last year ~hcrese made 63o pictures ir the Vichy section o1 France, documentary pictures showing oven blowing the fields. the planting, how the people live, their houses, costumes and so on. Now al Ire government reques., she is press adviser for that st C. ton. This summer she goes 10 Holland 10 make 500 documen.- ary photographs of modern Dutch architecture. Then on to Germany to make series for 3 machinery factory that turns out ball-be4r- lnEs, Whether 1t is a cog in a wheel or the latest prize-winning piece Of art that Therese photo- graphs lt has that original de luxe Bonney touch.
 1.ouse il was, tall, slender. ar t.&tIc Louise with her curly black Langs, swift. winning smile and "llloWy grace. who started he Bonney Firls writing in big Way. Art student, reporter, style editor, Louise picked up her new color. I typewriter, took along new style little car and went 10 Paris q cou- plc of years ago to put the firm into print
 They're Prolific Writers
 ! I books in six months, "shoppiag in Paris" Guide 0 Paris Restdu- rants, How to Buy Antiques iii Paris How 10 Buy Modern Fur niture." Then Louise, becoming interested m the mechanics Of f~- famed French cooking, laid aside her typewriter. donncd an apron and cap and went into q Frcncn school for chefs ard learned just how It was done Result, q little red and white oilcloth-coyoro book entitled French Cooking n Paris"
 But ii is ln the modern decora- tive field that Louise's chief inter- est lies. She is now making sur- vey Of how many noted artists arc designing slrerWaro mttal furni- ture, reed furniture fabrics, wall paper and other household articles which are 10 be produced in the mass al moderate prices. She writes for many Of the womcn's magazines, illustrating her arti- CleS with BonneY pictures, She di- vides her time between her coun- try home in New Jersey, where she gardens, cooks and writes, and the New York Bonncy office where she meets business appointments.
 So much for the two Bonney girls When their picture service grew to such an extent that dozens of pictures arrived here weekly, tho girls needed some competert, reliable person with innate good taste and appealing manner 10 handle the selling end of it.
 Why not Mother?" they asked ir unison. for Mrs. Bonney. a wo- man of the home-maker mother type. had found that life had lost it's zest with a big house on her hands and no daughters at home to entertain for.
 T had no idea I could be a business woman" quiet little Mrs.