Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is more or less Flahooley's own difficulty. Its magic lamp gets to seem more like a Pandora's box; its story grows as cluttered as a playroom on Christmas night; and a show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that...
Walker's three-bedroom, one-story house could be built for $9-11,000. Features: two children's bedrooms which can be turned into a large playroom by pushing aside a folding partition; a fireplace back to back with the heating unit, so that both economically use the same chimney; a living room in the back of the house away from street noises...
Fashions in child training are as extreme, and change almost as much, as women's hats. In the last two decades there has been a complete revolution in the nursery and playroom. In the Journal of Pediatrics, Dr. Celia B. Stendler of the University of Illinois' College of Education describes it: "From an era where the mother was taught that the child must have his physical wants cared for and then be left alone, must be fed on a rigid schedule, must learn to cry it out, must be toilet-trained early and must not be spoiled...