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...Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with...
...House. After three years' work and 18 unproduced animated cartoons of abstract dramas, she hired a cameraman and made Anitra's Dance in three months for $3,000 in her Manhattan apartment. To get her abstract effects, she used sheets of crumpled Cellophane, an egg-cutter, prisms, toy pyramids, ping pong balls, velvet, sparklers, bracelets and, chiefly, camera angles. Although the pyramids are intended to suggest the fact that Anitra danced in the Egyptian desert, Miss Bute objects to symbolism, claims no connection with surrealism. Says...
...into the brilliant Klieg lights stepped Engineer H. D. Robinson. With two other engineers he had taken turns at the controls-two hours on, four hours off. The white glare of publicity proved too much for him. Just as he was being presented with a toy model of M10001 he swayed, tottered, fell to the floor in a faint...
Thus the Administration should not take its victory on Tuesday as a criterion for its future policy. It must not play the part of a generous uncle who gives his nephew a toy every time he asks for one. There must be method in his policies which will offer industry and agriculture constructive aid. In short, confidence must be restored by making sure that the government's credit will be used only where it assists, not hinders...
...King Peter remembered," said Mrs. Gruitch, "that Tomislav and Andreja had been to the seashore often and played with toy boats. So Peter told his brothers that King Alexander had gone off in a ship to France and that the ship had struck a big wave, high as the palace. Their father, Peter said, is still in the waves. They will have to wait and he may not come back any more. "King Peter is an unspoiled, child of natural grace," wound up Mrs. Gruitch...