Evening star., 1938-11-27
Latest Dolls
Called More
Grown Up
Toyland Reflects
Real Life, Says
Santa Claus
Dolls are growing up.

dolls are growing up.
The doll that every good little girl
will find under her Christmas tree
this year is likely to be considerably
beyond the baby" age, according to
confidential report from Santa
Claus. Speaking by short-wave
radio yesterday from his headquar-
ters at the North Pole, Santa re-
quested that the following message
be relayed to readers of the Junior
Page:
"The firm of Santa Claus & Co.
has worked hard all year to make
Toyland more interesting than ever
before. Our designers have pro-
duced many new toys and improved
most of the old ones. And I am
satisfied that when I land in Wash
lngton on Christmas Eve my sack
Will contain some very interesting
things.
"Toyland is, of course, a reflection
OF real life. 1t is a world in minia-
ture-a world of make believe, very
much like the world in which we
live, except that everything is on a
smaller scale.
And that" Santa continued,
"orings us back to dolls. The wide
eyed baby doll of former years is still
popular, but this years big hit is
gong to be considerably more
groWn-up. In fact, my designers
copied the 1888 doll from live models
real girls in their teens. girls of the
type you'll find in any junior or
senior high school in WASHINGTON"
All the new dolls follow the latest
styles in hairdress, Santa said. some
wear their hair in braids. others
have bobs, and few even 90 in for
the "piled-up' coiffure that has
oeen SO popular in recent months.
lhls last is a rather formal type of
halr-do, however, and the dolls af-
fectlng 1T usually are dressed as If
they are about to attend a state
dinner at the White House. Minia-
ture bobby pins are used to hold
the hair in place, and flowers are
placed in the higher curls.
Included in the costumes worn bv
the new dolls are reefer-style tweed
coats; beaver trimmed coats of va
rious materials; suspender dresses
OF the peasant type, with loosely
fitting blouses; prom" gowns, some
In white satin with blue satin jack
cts, and school dresses of cotton,
with the popular "dinks" for hats.
For the doll that travels, there is
an assortment of luggage, including
the newest airplane type appro-
priately plastered with labels from
the places she has visited.
And nearly everything else in this
years Toyland is just as up to the
minute as the new dolls, according
to Santa.
Take the electric trains. for in
stance" he went on. They'll do
just about everything that real
trains will do, except carry passen-
gers. They're streamlined, just like
the ones you see on the most mod
ern railroads; they'll run at differ
ent speeds; they'll slow down. stop
or back in response to signals; they'll
even whistle their own signals, for
the benefit of any other trains that
may be on the tracks.
"One of the more expensive toy
railroads has an electric eye, with
which you can stop the train by a
simple wave of the hand. Some of
the others have baggage chutes of
the type used on real railroads. and
there are Illuminated cars for night
travel, cars designed to carry logs,
sand, milk, automobiles, ETC., and
there's even siX-drive locomotive.
ITO keep pace with the other
fields of transportation, there are
mechanical automobiles, trailers,
buses, trucks, tractors, airplanes.
boats, garages, filling stations, bus
terminals, airports, catapults for
launching planes-in fact, just about
everything you can think Of.
For girls who get those dolls I
was telling you about, there are doll
houses completely furnished for
housekeeping. And speaking of dolls
again-I mustn't forget Deanna
Durbin. She was the model for one
of the latest type dolls, and it looks
exactly like her, even to the kind of
clothes she wears in the movies.
And, Of course, there's our old friend
Charlie Mccarthy"
But" a Junior Page reporter in
terrupted, what about the older
folks? What have you got new and
different for Mother and Dad?"
"Shucks," Santa retorted. what
have I been telling you about? Toys
are for Mother and Dad, too-and if
you don't believe me, ask any boy
or grill"