| Show -----1 — ' - - SEPTEMBER - '''e:l''''''' P") ct4 - 1- c - r ii---- -( 1'4 '- st N's 4 4 1 1 ' - pie I- - - e '1111 y sc)-me a ' si 4 C ra: - 'Alb- 4' ' nWS ' ' '' - N -- 4' - - -' about toys rather than playing with them there's a new book S for you The Stag of American Toys by Richard O'Brien (Abbeville Press $4995) is an outsize handsomely illustrated book that recounts the development of toys and the toy business Much of the book's value lies in the nostalgia it fosters for older and simpler times but it also casts light upon toys of the future The text is comprehensive though rather pedestrian but the pictures— many in color—are both plentiful and 0 delightful The Aottioucakmlovo are early pages 7 among the most f I interesting mo ranging from Colonial dolls and ' 'ago "A a to hoops y General Grant figure that actually smoked a cigar Later on we learn such fascinating details as that Mickey Mouse himself practically saved the toy industry in the Depression and that the idea for the Barbie doll was planted when a toymalcer's daughter was observed playing with paper dolls depicting a teenage girl More typically however new toys seem to come into being under the influence of such outside sources as comic strips movies and TV Internal creativity as always is harder to come by —Herbert Kuplerberg io ' "AK - - — 1120rAirl°1""'w°1aiata"k4'abeft 4 - rti - v t4- i lib 416 -- -- - 1- ' s -6 - - 4 - - - - '': - k 41: ': '' 4' : - ”- - ' :'- : - - - - - - f -- '1- - sr A ' - : :' "'" ''' 4 st ' 1 — - 7 - 11 g i 4 : 4 1 j 2:ter : ''''''4 :J I " V 1 V '4 t4 a : v ' R: 1 r t 1 - It t 'N tiV ' - C I Y i " - I - A ' ) i- - i- &('l 1 t- - - ''a - x43 P r - 4 -- - ti i - 131 -- -- ' 1 ' -I 4 - - A --- sN ' - '- - - ': -- ' Weight Watched introduce over a dozen new breakfasts - - It's a hot story Microwaveable breakfasts en ' tz brown French from Weight Watchers ht Eutterthilk-Fanczdce- i hal-Ligtender with Toast fluffy Plain or topped with juicy platt111"--1-te- i or ripe sweet strawberries English Muffin' Slz and American cheese There's elleihti 41 of moist muffins and fruit- - O'r cheese-fillequick to make and easy to take on the run Breakimake few a should laeadlines: Watchers It Weight quite Like-gold- '' ' ' Milw-- - di 01990 0nolke Window Inst kw smut til mimetic - - :4: -- ' J ' - 1 l''-- 4:- - - :: 4 d A '- Are two pianists necessarily better than one? It's an arguable question but John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas make out a good case in Music for Dm Pianos a compact disc on the MCA label They bring a particularly zestful quality to Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche and Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rhumba music with an infectious Latin beat and flavor Other composers represented include Arensky Bach Brahms Dvorak Khachaturian Stravinsky and Walton—all adding up to an unusually lively keyboard —ILK collection : I - — ''"- - gl ' ngst t 7 t-- c -- - i tb04eardppo ' r PIANO X 2 4 11111rvit111' l'::::k - - 4 '- I - - ' I ' - ' - 1-- If you're at the stage of reading 114 Cs - 1 - TOY PARADE B 4 " - ' tt"'14-- - '0- x ' ' ' 's "Up ' ' - N- - - F - 1990 2 - TI1JS IS itvülgt - PAGE 10 - - - REMEMBER 2 1990 PARADE MAGAZINE - |
