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...newest rage in made-in-France toys is Massacre! and Parisians have also been buying carload shipments of a made-in-Germany toy called Les Moineaux Avares or "The Greedy Sparrows...
When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...
...infelicitous delivery of the finale, which she played awkwardly, timidly, and insecurely. . . . Miss Kerr's pretty and facile playing was swamped in the tides of Rachmaninoff's grandiloquence." Pitts Sanborn wrote in the Telegram of the Brahms as "nothing for a young miss in flounces to toy with...
...basic; but grizzled Louis Lumière has long since ceased to care. Interviewed last week in Paris he barely condescended to observe: "My. brother Auguste and I looked upon our invention as a novelty, capable of offering distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time to go to the cinema. ... I do not think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned...
...Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...