Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of such improbabilities as hoodlums using toy automobiles to rehearse a holdup, Behind the Headlines is an unusually exciting program melodrama. To Lee Tracy addicts it marks one more, perhaps a permanent "comeback" of their favorite, who is now alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff...
...Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Schaefer, 8, and Jack Hauser. 7, organized a "G-man" squad with toy guns and disguises supplied by their parents, set up "headquarters" in a shack. Last week Agent Schaefer strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...
Space in TIME occasionally given over to Jazz is all right, but not always well informed. For instance in the current issue there is quite a piece about a piano player named Raymond Scott, who has recorded, among others. Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner. Also about another musician who will make Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve...
Birthday. Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 8; in Hollywood. Celebration: a party for child patients in a Los Angeles hospital. Gifts: from her parents, a toy cooking outfit; from the public, thousands of dolls...
...crowded square . . . twilight is setting in ... Arab barters with Arab . . . prayer time is approaching . . . camels are resting ... a group of dancing girls are entertaining ... an Englishman gets lost . . . traffic is heavy . . . the afternoon heat is still felt. . . ." Recorded but not yet released are equally odd Scott numbers called Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner...