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...Rubber dolls are no more. Their stuffed substitutes will have fewer elastic joints, movable eyes, mamma voices, eating and diaper-wetting apparatuses. Doll clothing, always in the latest style, features narrow skirts, narrow belts, simple lines, in line with WPB directives for adult clothing...
...fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater who had ever read a book...
...them had got the mumps which had kept a couple of their playmates home in bed. Aboard a ferry they chugged peacefully across the river, listening to tug whistles, playing with miniature fish poles, sand pails and shovels, cowboy hats, a live cat and a 2-ft, pink-haired doll named "Betsey...
Britain's Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose sent five of their royal dolls to Washington to be auctioned by British War Relief for the benefit of European child refugees in England. Couturiers for the doll clothes: Molyneux and Norman Hartnell. Models for the dolls: Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses...
Stiffly formal and preponderantly religious, they showed demure madonnas suckling solemn-faced infants, martyrs suffering horrible tortures with quiet dignity, earnest, humorless burghers and princes and their doll-faced wives. Single exception to the prevailing solemnity was a grimly humorous allegory by Painter Hieronymus Bosch (see cut), showing with peasant grotesqueness and a premonition of surrealism the hag-ridden death of an irresolute miser...