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Even when he talks art, Peirce succeeds in doing it simply, without the troubled air of most artists. "It's damned hard to judge what kind of a painter you are," he says. "For me painting is a sort of toy shop-something to play with...
...make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created the Spanish Armada beating its way up the English Channel...
...South African government ordered 100 steam locomotives from Krupp of Essen, who offered a lower bid and swifter delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china and Leica cameras are once again in the world's markets. A British toy manufacturer complained that the Germans are undercutting his prices on teddy bears and white rabbits in Cyprus, offering stiff competition in Canada and Africa...
...worry about your child becoming a TV addict. After all, TV "is a new toy, and its novelty will wear...
After a noon barbecue, members of the orchestra and some of the crew of his special train banded themselves into a "Sad Symphony" of toy ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well...