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Bonwit Teller's ace, Costa Rica-born designer Tom Lee, most respected of all Fifth Avenue window-display men, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming China Trade show, filled his windows with elegant Chinoi-series, including two life-size rag-doll horses. Swank Jeweler Marcus' veteran designer, W. B. Okie Jr., surrounded a terra cotta madonna with Easter lilies and pearls. Macy's Irving Eldredge, who has 41 windows to fill, paraded his dummies before backdrops of Manhattan landmarks and the Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller...
...films. Paramount's Adolf Zukor saw him on the Budapest stage, got Lukas to move to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in The Night Watch, Strictly Dishonorable, Little Women, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Lady Vanishes. He first played on Broadway in 1937 in A Doll's House. He is married to a small, blonde Hungarian, Gizella Benes. He likes to drive and tinker with fast automobiles, flies his own plane. Often he uses his acting talent for practical jokes, such as ordering people out of his house for supposed insults to his wife. Sometimes...
Play. One way for the doctor to get in right with his unsuspecting little patients, and at the same time get the dope on them, is to play with them. Dr. Joseph C. Solomon of Baltimore is a great hand with small dolls, toy furniture, vehicles, etc., which he uses to set up family situations. If the patient is a little girl, the therapist provides her with a doll with which she unconsciously identifies herself. She makes the doll perform actions which she would not admit any notion of doing herself. One little girl made a toy streetcar run over...
Guatemala-born Merida, who for '14 years had painted nothing but abstractions inspired by French modernists during his visit to Europe, surprised Manhattan visitors to the Buchholz Gallery by a complete change of style. His perspectiveless, daguerreotypical canvases, brightly colored and surrealistically childlike, depicted toy hons and paper-doll-like human figures sedately waving the stumps of amputated arms. Critics were not sure that Painter Merida's new style was any improvement over the old, but found his ashy reds, yellows and blues loudly decorative...
...days of the phonograph, Tenor Murray's brothy voice was one of the great sellers. With a nasal lilt he sang songs like If You Talk in Your Sleep Don't Mention My Name; It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch; Oh, You Beautiful Doll; I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy. Lately Victor gave 63-year-old Billy Murray a chance at a comeback, on Bluebird records. Last week his voice, no longer a broth but a rich Irish stew, was to be heard...