The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-17
CASH COMES In FAST
AS TOYLAND OPENS
Great Variety Of Dolls and
Trinkets Made by Disabled
Soldiers on Sale.

In the first half hour after Soldiers
Toyland' opened at the old Knicker.
booker Club, 3I9 Fifth avenue. yesterday
afternoon the excited girls at the door
took in SIS. After that money came
80 fast that they forgot to count. Mean
time Mrs. August Belmont and other
women were selling toys and taking
orders inside and Emma Calve was SELL
ing chances on three dolls dressed to
resemble herself as Carmen and Mdnon,
so the disabled soldiers and penniless
refugees In Europe. who made the toys
and are to receive the money they bring.
are likely TO fare pretty we'll.
Nine. Charles le Verrier. who brought
h toys to this country, confessed thai
she had "a little h~eartache'' because
many OF the toys and all of the cata-
lOgues had not yet arrived. But thou
sands OF toys literally had arrived, and
there were plenty OF women to tell
all about them, SO the catalogues We're
not muc missed.
Nothing quite like the things at this
exhibition ever was seen In the PACK
OF any American Santa Claus. They
are real toys. such as children will love.
but they are typically French. Such.
for instance. as the group OF dolls called
"Parisettes." sent by Mile. Valentine
Thomson, and La Vie Feminine" The,
are really truly dolls. made to be played
with. but every one IL "A typical French
figure. SO that, looking AT them, on.
seems TO see n street in Paris In minia-
ture.
Very pathetic are the tiny toys In the
case labelled first attempts OF French
soldiers at toy making" Tiny tables
and chairs. little wooden animals, has,
kets. carved soldiers. very we'll done, bat
speaking in every line of the patient
efforts OF h hapless war victims who
made them.
There was n large sale yesterday
Mrs, Robert Bacon paid SEQ for a minla-
ture newspaper kiosk with a French
newsgirl inside n tiny copies of papers
and magazines. all complete. This was
made by IA girl Of ~, II refugee from the
north. Another little girl. Collette John
son, was the maker OF Il group OF charm
ing dancing children. carved out OF wood
and tinted.
Other buyers were Mrs. III. II. Baxter
and Robert Chanler. The committee on
reception was composed Of Mrs. Orme
Wilson, Miss Louise Sands, Miss Mabel
Gerry. Mrs. william Payne Thompson,
Mrs. Edmund l.. Baylies. Mrs. Amos
Tuck French and Mrs. Charles II. Mar
shall. Among the women who came and
saw and bought were Mrs. Edward
Cooper Hewitt, Mrs, Charles r.. Alexan-
der. Mrs. Vincent Astor. Mrs. John Me-
Gee. Mrs. Charles de L.. Oelrichs. Mrs,
Laurence Townsend and Miss Dorothy
Anderton. Mrs. william Aston Chanler,
who arranged for this exhibition when
h was In France last summer. acted
az showwoman and general manager
all day and Mrs. Margaret Chanler AID
rich helped late in the afternoon.
The toys weren't the only attraction,
no. nor the wonderful set pieces such as
the algerian wedding" There was
music and dancing and tea. Miss Elsie
Janis did several character dances, which
included turning car,whccls that any
boy might envy. Then she brought down
the house by singing "Tipporary" In
Ethel Barrymore's best style, also In
Eddie Foy's and Sarah Bernhardt's.
Mile. Irene Bord0ni SANG and Alexander
Powell talked.
The exhibition will lie opened every
day for W months. or until the toys
oyO oolA.