Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first U. S. performance of German Paul Hindemith's Let's Build a City. There was a program of musical animals (Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from the Music School of Henry Street Settlement piped earnestly and well about the Hindemith city where children held all the offices...
...White House. The President & Mrs. Hoover frowned down costly gifts, decided all presents should be inexpensive. Three days before Christmas Mr. Hoover with his sons and daughter-in-law went shopping for the children, pushed their way like ordinary persons through the Washington store crowds. At the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop the President picked out a gasoline filling station and a war tank. Son Allan (now in banking) handled the family cash. At Garrison's on E Street Mr. Hoover was fascinated with a miniature electric range, bought it and a tea set and some toy cooking utensils...
...oval table in the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland has been strewn every day for nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity...
...with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...
Surrender (Fox). In Surrender Director William K. Howard takes his camera into a German castle, shows what happened there during the War. The owner, a German count approaching dotage, plays with toy soldiers. The castle is near a prison camp run by a captain who wears a black bandage over one side of his face, who blows his brains out when the War is over. The most pleasant thing that happens is a love affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries...