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...largest units, Margon Corp., makes only eyes, teeth-&-tongues, voices. Most dolls' hair is mohair or artificial silk, but eye lashes are real hair, imported from nuns in certain Italian convents at $8 a pound. Though many a doll is sold naked or equipped merely with a diaper and safety pin, complete wardrobes are available. In Cleveland in 1928 a heavy demand was found for dolls' trousseaux (including evening dresses and ermine wrap) retailing...
...Passage (RKO) improves on Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel but is still dull, incredible. It purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt has been...
...University, got a year's leave of absence, moved to Orange Park, Fla., with his wife and10-month-old son. From his friend Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes of the Yale Experimental Station he borrowed a 7½-month-old chimpanzee. He clothed his chimpanzee in cap, jumper and diaper, fed it with his child, kept it in the baby's room, where it spent long hours playing on the floor with Junior Kellogg...
...precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone, or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her-"for Baby Betty, the darling!"-everything from four-leaf clovers offered by grubby children to the historic lace diaper presented by a beaming Irish woman with a shawl over her head. An efficient staff was busy all last week dealing with birthday presents; but to find out which of the vast collection ever reached the "P'incess" would be like probing a state secret. Two sure bets: the mechanical...
...foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked out in a limited range of colors...