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Show Games and Dolls Hold First Spot in Santa's Toyland Busy With War Work, He Was Unable to Make New Metal Toys. The celebration of V-J Day didn't come soon enough to put Santa Claus' toyland schedule to a peacetime peace-time basis. Although he will carry more than a $200,000,000 pack of playthings this Christmas, less than 8 per cent of the toys under Yule-tide Yule-tide trees will be of metal and most of these will be the simplest types of stamped-out metal, j There will be only a token showing of wheel toys, electric trains and mechanical toys of metal, met-al, a survey of toyland supplies in- : i 1 ! f I I . , f 1 I v 1 -&Vi-,ViyrVViYfc-,-,---w-" Dolls are a big favorite. dicates, but better quality lines of wood and cardboard playthings are assured. Rubber toys are not expected ex-pected to appear in any volume and plastic items will be limited to the same small quantities as last year due to material shortages. The brightest spot on toyland is the doll parade and the parlor game sector where there are reported to be good supplies of many old favorites favor-ites like Camelot and Monopoly that children and parents can enjoy together, to-gether, although cardboard and dye-cut dye-cut limitations have made new items scarce. Classic card game favorites like Rook, Pit and Crossword Lexicon Lexi-con have been produced in large volume, vol-ume, as they require a minimum of cardboard. Bonanza, combining the technique of Michigan and Rummy, is another favorite that provides fun for all the family. Escape-type games that are easy to learn predominate. |