The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-22
By Jack stinnett Ap. .Featnre Service Writer

brought Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D.. Dewey together and although nine of their I2 years of married life have been spent n the limelight, their private life still is an almost perfect interpretation of that old American classic, Home, Sweet Home"
 It's a quartet now, Of course, since Tommy. jr (age D, and Johnny (age 4) have made their bows.
 In recent weeks, Papa Dewey has been striving, with one hand, to get the Republican bandWagon to play Dewey is Our Leader" while con- tinuing to drum gangsters and rack eteers out of New York with the other. But that hasn't thrown the family harmony off-key.
 Probably most of the present ac- cord is due to the efforts of Mrs. Dewey, a small, quiet, attractive wo- man in her middle thirties who chueked overheard a promising sing ing career which already had estab- lished her as a musical comedy prima donna to become Mrs. Thomas Edmund Dewey, wife of a hopeful but unknown young lawyer.
 Mrs. Dewey, under the stage name Frances Hoyt, was prima donna of the road company of George Whites Scandals and was cast in the same role in the John Murray Anderson show which opened the Paramount Theater in New York and toured the Paramount circuit.
 Studies Voice
 The Deweys met in Chicago. Fran ees Eileen Hut, already known and lauded as a mezzo-soprano and musician in her native Sherman, Texas, and in Sapuipa, Okla, where she lived for some years, had gone to Chicago as secretary and star pu- pill of voice-teacher Percy Rector Stephens. There, also, had gone Tom Dewey, the Owosso, Mich, youth, whose interest in notes musical ra- ther than legal had won him a scho- larship from the University of Mich igan to study with Stephens.
 During the summer of 1923, Dew ey accepted an invitation from a Chicago lawyer named Reid to enter the latters office and began reading in the law. By the end of the sum- mer, young Dewey had definitely de- cided in favor of the bar.
 Five years later, in 1928, the Deweys were marraed. Dewey then was practicing civil law in a New York downtown office. His income was modest. So was the small Man hattan apartment in which the couple set up housekeeping. Mrs. Dewey did all her own work. Even now, though the family income no longer needs such careful budgeting, Mrs. Dewey deYotes all of the time she is not with her husband in household duties, marketing and car ing for the two children.
 The Deweys social activity for- merly consisted of attending con- certs and the theater, and dining with friends. In recent years, Dew ey's double-barreled activity in pol ities and prosecution has made this impossible.
 Recent attendance at the pre- miere of the movie, "Pinocchio," was the first time, says Mrs. Dewey, that she and her husband had been able to devote an evening to their own recreation in months.
 Fifth Avenue Home
 The Deweys live now in a large but not ostentatious apartment on Fifth Avenue, selected so the boys might have the run of Central Park across the street Tommy, this year, was started in private school chosen because of its emphasis on handi- craft. The Deweys believe firmly an important part of a child's edu- cation is learning to use his hands.
 For years now, Mrs. Dewey's extra-household duties have con- sisted of reading and briefing mag azine and newspaper articles and books for her husband She also helps him with his speeches, times them, often making suggestions which are adopted. A grand piano in the corner of a spacious living room goes untouched for days and weeks now. And vocal harmonizing is almost thing of the past
 Dewey's plunge into the national political arena has brought his wife and family into the picture. Frank ly, Mrs. Dewey doesn't care for it. Not at all ungracious in her dealings with the press, Mrs Dewey refuses to make any declarations concern ing matters national or inter- national
 She Won't Talk
 That's Toms business" she says eds 1nhlio aFFfaa Ia