Word: toyland
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...Babes in Toyland (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). A familiar Christmas package for the children, from Victor Herbert...
...were aimed in mounting numbers at Allied supply lines in Belgium and eastern Holland. But the enemy also persisted in his war of terror against civilians. Into Britain's book of reckoning went another V-bomb tragedy: many women & children killed in a large store, while its Christmas toyland was crowded...
...unblushing temperament, who conducts with his back to the band, he frankly describes his abilities as "brilliant." "I have always been one of those spectacular musicians," says he. Band- master Rolfe soothes his audiences with such items as Overture to the Viking, scenes from Babes in Toyland, selections from Porgy and Bess. His theory: "Give 'em what they want...
...this lovable little baby elephant with blue eyes and a winning manner seemed to be all over the place. His name was in lights on the marquees of some 200 cinemansions. He was getting a big play in a majority of the nation's big-city department stores. Toyland was his without a struggle. He was selling giant green peas and bottles of ink, gasoline and women's collars. As a children's book, Dumbo of the Circus, he was sensational - 50,000 copies at $1 each. The tunes from his picture (Dumbo) were heard everywhere...
...topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression of an Eastern toyland. This week Prime Minister Luang Bipul Songgram said: "If force is inevitable, war will be waged...