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Nevertheless, one deep shadow still lies across the U. S. toy industry?the fear of German competition. Last summer, many other industries were worried for the same cause; but, one by one, they have recovered from their fears. The steel industry now has little concern about an invasion of U. S. markets by German products. But the toy industry is in a quite different position. Before the War, when our markets were wide open to the products of German toymakers, the U. S. toy industry was small. During the War years, with German competition cut off, it grew heavily...
Tense silence reigned in the Stadiu ?broken from above by the whirring of airplanes which circled around. jHundreds of pigeons were set free to fly wildly overhead and the air became filled in a twinkling with colored toy balloons. The Generals stood on either side of the Speaker of Congress, who in less than two minutes administered the oath of office to General Calles, who then became Mexico's first Labor President. An instant later artillery belched; 25,000 people cheered; bands again crashed out the National Anthem...
Miss Burke, still brilliantly youthful, seized all the honors of the happy event although the cast included, with the usual Ziegfeld prodigality, Ernest Truex, Marion Green, Bobby Watson and May Vokes. Her voice is a pretty toy to be played with rather than taken seriously. Possibly the relative unimportance of the music made it seem so. Not that it mattered. The play and the character are more than an evening's entertainment...
...quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about Mr. Lincoln was that when he was a boy he had a toy theatre. Did you have a toy theatre? Did you paint the scenery and write the plays? Well, I did; and, like Mr. Lincoln, I kept it up until I was ashamed to have people know I played with such toys. However, Mr. Lincoln has little time for hobbies these days, with...
...ones. Tlie audience reacted to Mr. Honegger's composition with chuckles rather than cheers. One Hackett, reviewer for The Evening Post, was particularly amused. He commented in a mood of tolerant banter. Among other things, he remarked of Mr. Honegger: ". . . he might as well amuse himself with this toy as any other...