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# Analysis This page is primarily **book and entertainment reviews** with one **advertisement** for The Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The only cartoon element is a small illustration accompanying the hotel ad showing a caricatured man holding up a wine glass with text "IT'S A MATTER OF TASTE." This is **not political satire** but rather a visual pun for a commercial advertisement—the "taste" reference plays on both wine-tasting and the hotel's quality/character. The bulk of the page reviews films (including titles like "Anthony Adverse" and "Mary of Scotland") and concert recordings of classical composers. The content reflects 1930s entertainment criticism in this satirical magazine, but this particular page contains no political commentary or social satire worth analyzing.

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White Banners, 4; The man who makes cloaking it in stinkers one Hannah the Kite the affairs of the sinful wards, her € Hannah's confucious, mencken and Gc ped into one. What's this guy Doug Romeo and Juliet. The fine of the year, even if Leslie How spindly and melancholic Rome uction makes a RECORDS Dave Thompson Whiteoaks Harvest, /; More plots, subplots, su Jal amob. 1 have fc against this gang but bestsellers, Concert Recordings | Yan and Yin, by Alice Tisdale Hobavt. Alice's “Oil for the Lamps of China” was dull; this is dull um of Organ Music (Colur works). In offe these 14 sides | Dr. Albert: Schweitzer, the « nding Bach authority, Colum- Isa long felt want. Excel y played and faultlessly re- J | Mysteries Death in the Deep South, 4» do Greene The author of ial Lee Potts” does a super miys QUE Beethoven: symphony No. 7 in tery in which you get violence a eS « A major, Opus 92 (Victor Mas. accurate social background, terpicce). Arturo Toscanini and writing and not a little provoca ~ the New. York Philharmonic So- tion from the theme. cety Orchestra in an interpreta tion so powerful and intense as File on Bolitho Blane,; Den- VA to defy description. These mag- nis Wheatley. Novel gadg. \\ nificent discs prove conclusively whodunit in which you solve it that it's true what they say about yourself from a police dossier of & \ Toscanini. clues, police reports, photographs. pe Haydn: c ‘There's a sealed solutio - Sa jaydn: Concerto in D_ major a tacit tu if tia dca auras Clever eS 4% for ello sad Orchestra (Colur The business of selecting a . bia Masterworks). At last we _ Harvard Has a Homicide, 4y have a completely satisfying 1 hotel for your next visit to T. Fuller, Good campus stuff, bum plot. cording of this popular ‘cello conce ‘i thanks to the brilliant work of soloist Eman- York deserv. ittle The Kidnap Murder Case, ty $. 5. Van uel F Mi"the orchestez under the | New York deserves a little ine. Well I'll be danged' Philo Vance — baton of Malcolm Sargent. for a lecture on semi-precious stones has 2 © he-man and kills not with boredom but Saint-Saens: Mon Cocur S'Oucre a ta with a gun! Proving himself a fighter! Voix and Amour! Viens Aider from _Sam- thought. There are a number of hotels comparable to the Stull E don't like him. son et Dalila (Victor Red Seal). Gladys Swarthout’s lovely voice is heard to full ad ae _ , vantage in these two famous arias. Roosevelt in price and gen- Symphony 8 in B minor eral desirability, yet suffici- Schubert: MOVI ES reels lasterpiece). Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of that trusty old. stand-by, the Pare Lorentz Unfinished” Symphony. All in all, an ex cellent job although the interpretation is per- to make a choice necessary. Anthony Adverse. Fredric March stand- haps 4 bit pretentious ing motionless for two hours while the boys try to outline the plot of the longest novel of Best Steppers a decade Early Morning Blues ently different in character Our location, our services (there: Ammons (sincere and without osten- Cain and Mabel. In which Marion d his Orchestra (Decca). A nice series of . Le Davies, Clark Gable, and the Warner Broth. hot solos with palm going to the barrel tation) and our deliciously s manage to produce the dullest picture of house pianistics of M. Ammons himself. On Se ne She Eee the other side is Mile-Or-Mo’ Bird Rag, a | prepared food are well ee faster session. in which bass-player Isracl Craig's Wife. The George Kelly play Crosby cops the honors. h 08. id USS c WO! or Wak i lind Re clas the woman in Tove ty Jam and Uptown Downbeat 45 ; Duke Ellington and bis Orchestra (Bruns and $6 double. Give Me Your Heart. A slick dramatiza. wick). Adequate proof of the fact that the tion of an English drawing room drama in Duke's outfit is still one of the most distinc which Francis is very noble about hav- tive swing bands in the country. Some of ing an illicit child and George Brent is the solos are hardly first-rate but on the insouciant as a husband who isn’t told any- whole a thumbs up verdict is justified thing known. Rates are $4 single Pennies From Heaven (Decez). All the | A Mary of Scotland. Another tour de force performers featured in the picture take a UNITED for the Hepburn in which she repeats some — crack at the lyrics in this record, In other of her best known bit performances, getting words: the vocals are by Frances Langford the Queen nowhere and in which John Ford's Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby. The hand was unsteady, for once, with the orchestra is Jimmy Dorsey's, better than you cameras might think The Gay Desperado. A musical with a plot, for a change; if you ¢ Washboard Blues W hiteman's n Orchestra (Victor). © re-pressed this Nino Martini’s tenor voice, you'll enjoy the — cight-year-old disc on the strength of Com- smart direction and the fine performance of — poser Hoagy Carmicheal’s mournful vocals Leo Carillo as a sentimental bandit and 32 bars of improvisation at break-neck . speed by an ensemble including the late great The General Dies at Dawn. A simple Bix Beiderbeck. Bing Crosby sings a chorus melodrama, well written by Clifford Odets, of High Water on the other side of this disc very well directed by Lewis Milestone, and It is to be hoped that Victor will re-release played by Gary Cooper, Alan Tamaroff, Dud- Whiteman’s There Ain't No Sweet Man in Icy Digges, and Madeleine Carroll. which Bix took 8 classic bars. ing DIFEEN ow Yor comicbooks.com