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...little boy is saving his nickels to buy a $1 zeppelin so that he and his pal can go to the Klondike in it. When the zeppelin arrives, they are disappointed that it turns out to be a toy...
...huge and comparatively untapped source of cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three...
...their Brooklyn home two months ago. One evening last week Noel found himself alone with Sister Dolores. When the mother came upon them the girl was dead. Scratches and bruises on her made police jump to the conclusion that jealous Noel had beaten her to death with his toy airplane. But the medical examiner, Dr. George W. Ruger, absolved the boy, certified that the infant's death was due to sudden enlargement of her thymus...
...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...