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Hundreds of portly, earnest, grey-haired gentlemen were playing with toys in Manhattan last week. They fondled dolls, pushed kiddie-cars, ran trains, played blocks eight hours a day. It was the annual U. S. Toy Fair, to which go toy buyers from nearly every big store in the U.S. to place their orders for next Christmas...
Because most Britons feel certain that the present improvement in British trade is bound to continue they estimate that Neville Chamberlain will have a surplus of approximately ?50,000,000 to toy with before the next budget must be presented April 17. Last week one result seemed certain-some relief for the British taxpayer who last year paid a basic rate of 25% on his income...
...every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...
...Mary Astor promised in future to support her family "in comfort but not extravagance." Wharf Angel (Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic...
...that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from...