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...Dress & Doll. Sophie was born in Houston, Tex. Her father, Felix Haas, a tobacco merchant, died when she was four years old and a year later her mother married Dr. John Alexander McLeay, a Canadian surgeon, and the family moved to Atlanta, Ga. (Now 80, Mrs. McLeay lives alone at New York's Hotel Delmonico.) Sophie's first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where...
Dressed in spotless white satin, with a pink ribbon in her curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces...
...know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
Million-Dollar Baby. Gimbels reported that Baby Sparkle Plenty, a doll version of one of Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...
There were too many horrible examples of money-losing pictures. Despite Ginger Rogers, Universal -International's The Magnificent Doll was having trouble getting into some first-run theaters. Only blitz tactics by razor-sharp David O. Selznick saved his Duel in the Sun from losing the box-office battle. To combat the panning of Duel by critics, Selznick shrewdly ran Duel simultaneously in several theaters in selected cities. Thus he cashed in before adverse comment could get around. Hollywood guessed that Duel's box-office gross is over $7,000,000, half of what Selznick needs to break...