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...City of Paris, but to the State. It is the duty of the Senate, which meets in Marie's palace, to decide whether pink or orange dahlias shall be planted in the garden beds, who shall sell gaufres (waffles) and lemonade, and whether or not the renter of toy boats shall be provided with a burglarproof shed.* A month ago, therefore, contestants for the Guignol concession, vacant since M. Brioché's death, were solemnly called before the Bar of the Senate. Five applied, three defaulted, only two were heard. At the last minute the competitive performance...
...Seldom has the Parisian Press been so excited about a crime as it was last summer when a hard-hearted criminal stole all the toy boats from the Luxembourg basin...
...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...
...Newark. N. J., Joseph Hart and Otto Petrin Jr., both 15, played-they were gamblers. Joe had a toy gun, Otto had a loaded revolver. They tried to see who could draw his gun first. The game grew spirited. Otto's gun went off, shot Joe dead...
...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...