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Astonishingly, he sold six Stories Toto Told Me to the Yellow Book, a quarterly...
...main feature of Holmes will be the music library which is being moved over, en toto, from the Radcliffe Library. Record stacks will be placed in Holmes' basement, with listening rooms, booths equipped with phonographs, and eight practice rooms, five of which will contain pianos. The basement will not only have a reading room, but also a typing room and lounge combined...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...
...Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...
Only a magic charm can save Toto's flotsam. It comes in the form of a heavenly dove produced for Toto by the spirit of his doting foster mother. With the help of the magic dove, Toto holds the cops hilariously at bay, gives the clamorous poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good...