Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel...
...Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid a cloud of toy balloons...
...picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods...
...that there will result a great enrichment of the cultural life of the community from the nationalization of radio. . . . Our own opinion is that at the present moment cultural enrichment borders upon an extravagance which is small solace for an empty belly. ... A state has absolutely no right to toy with the idea of radio nationalization . . . when men and women are going hungry...
...chance Henry Alexander Wise Wood, builder of presses, saw a copy of Publisher McCormick's address. The words seemed to him a challenge. Years of experience, from playing with a toy case of type at 5 to constructing the New York Times's giant, silent-running, sextuple Wood press, had taught him all about pressbuilding. He went to Publisher McCormick, an old friend. "I shall give you not only the color you spoke about but also the speed necessary to mass production," said he. Specifically he agreed to produce within 18 months for the Chicago Tribune an eight...