Each year, Mr. Grace triumphantly passes the store departments for his birthday traditions. Rumbold's crew barely gets ready to welcome him with dahlia carnations. Next to the mess, for cripple-served free pauper meals and a single bottle of champagne which wasn't supposed to actually open after 8 years. Finally dress rehearsal for the department's amateur entertainment, in this case a dance of the toys ballet, directed by Prince Charming Humphries, who copes with unfit cats and costumes without serous rehearsal time, alas in vain as the professional entertainers perform the very same shown so last year's Crosby top hat dance must be dug up hush-hush.
—KGF Vissers