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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...
...John Purroy Mitchel, widow of New York's late Mayor: " It was reported that in Manhattan, at the height of the gaieties of a Russian ball, a toy balloon, playfully 'touched with a lighted cigarette, exploded, set fire to my hair. Major William Kennelly threw a napkin over the blaze, extinguished it. Other guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them...
Beauty's prize is a golden apple, smooth, lustrous, a pretty toy. The prize of 'leadership is a prickly pear...
Automobiles. Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, of the psychology department, University of Chicago, has devised a test for applicants for motor licenses, consisting of control devices directing the movements of a toy automobile through the streets of a model city. The candidate must avoid traffic jams...
...written, is clever and naively numerous, but originally it had some serious, even tragic moments; except for the opening scene on the "love boat", where impecunious Chinese fathers sell their extra daughters to close-fisted connoisseurs of female charms, and several passages in which Miss Bushnell, as Ming Toy, is given free rein, the St. James version is entirely comic, though certainly no less entertaining on that account...