Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruth Slenczynski, 6-year-old pianist from Sacramento, fairly astounded sophisticated Berlin with her playing of a difficult classical program. At the end of the concert one enthusiast tried to give her a doll over the footlights but Polish Father Slenczynski objected, rushed forward, seized the doll, hurled it back into the audience...
...Tokyo in the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace, the Son of Heaven collared King Prajadhipok with the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum with Collar. Queen Rambai received from His Imperial Majesty the Order of the Sacred Crown First Class, and from Her Imperial Majesty a symbolic Japanese doll richly bedight. Neither Queen nor Empress has ever had a son. Sorrow unites them...
...Berry got back his hat, from a friend of the person who took it. He did not have to pay the $10 reward. He had written in the Ithaca Journal-News: "I love my hat as a little girl loves her doll. Please return my hat." He explained how he had acquired it: At Oxford last summer he saw an old man with a long white beard wearing just such a hat. He wanted one like it, hunted a long time, bought one at last in Edinburgh for 16 shillings...
...critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood is that he prophesied a dozen years ago that they would wither...
...have a three-year-old daughter who insists on taking it to bed with her every afternoon for her nap, in place of a doll...