Mr. JENNER. I do not want to put the words in your mouth.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes, I understand what you mean. I am trying to
think of a particular case that I would remember. I do not remember
any particular case, but I always took him and considered him as an
egocentric person. I do not remember any particular incident, but
I knew that he wanted the attention to himself, always. Not in any
particular case, but always. And he would rather disregard what Marina
would say. And this is possibly the reason for his not wanting to--for
Marina to learn English, so she would stay completely in the background.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you opened that subject which I want to inquire of you
about. Did you people in the Russian colony--did you consider that? Did
you regard that as unusual?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Right from the very first day my wife told
Marina, "You have to learn English, you have to be able to communicate,
and especially since you do not get along with your husband and you are
going to leave him some day--you have to be able to support your child
and yourself. You have to learn English and start immediately on it."
We gave her some records to study English--not mine, but my wife's and
her daughter's records, of Shakespearian English, how to learn English,
and they obviously still have those records.
Mr. JENNER. Yes, they were found in Mrs. Paine's home.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We even gave them a phonograph, I think, a cheap
phonograph, to play the records.
Mr. JENNER. You gave them records?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You also gave them an instrument to play them on?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A cheap phonograph, to play those records.
Mr. JENNER. What else do you recall giving them--dresses?