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...Wembley Exhibit, English craftsmanship is again a British glory -beauty and care of execution in the applied arts compensating for the noticeable lack of imagination and emotional power in the so-called fine arts. The Queen's Doll House (TIME, Oct. 29) is a huge and delicious toy, perfect to the last minute detail. The art of bookmaking touches the highwater mark in the artistic display, perfect in taste and in texture. Decorated interiors, varying in merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table...
Cheers and laughter. The band commenced to play Oh, You Beautiful Doll. The lady politician continued...
...Aneyniev came on the stage, holding her baby in her arms and accompanied by her husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...
Mary, Britain's domestic queen, universally beloved for her interest in better housing of the poor, is to receive the most magnificent doll's house ever made as a token of affection from her subjects. Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, designer of the Cenotaph, London's great war memorial, conceived the idea, enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot...
...palatial doll house for Britain's domestic Queen...