Judge — January 1937 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Best Cocktail: The “Shet-mah- Mouth.” Made like an Old-Fashioned, but with equal parts Jamaica Rum and good Rye. Most Terrific Deflations: Fordham, Al Smith, St. Mary's, Joe Louis, John Barrymore, Johnny Hamilton, the 45-b. movie magazine “Cinema”—1 issue. Best Actress: Helen Hayes again. (Gee, if that Dietrich could only act!). Best Torch Song: “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You.” Best Radio Reporting: The March of Time. Best Radio Comedy: Jack Benny. (He's really a nose ahead of Marse Fred Allen this year, but if you write in about it we'll deny we ever said it.) Likeliest Screen Discovery: Simone Simon. Well, Junior-Junior and Hen- nery-Hennery like that cute little mon- key, anyway! Girl in Class Most Likely to Succeed: Wallis Simpson. Greatest Comedians: W. C. Fields, Alf Landon, Bobby Clark, Jimmy Savo, Walter O'Keefe, Joe Alger. Ranking Radio Bores: Eddie Cantor (3rd year running—we must be all wet on this bird!) . . . Sighing Eddie Guest. Best Popular Priced Aeroplane: The “Taylor Cub"—$1295.00. Best Transport Aeroplane: The “Douglas”—the new ones have got everything in ‘em except an indoor ten- nis court, completely equipped with Helen “Wills “Moodv ‘and “Alice~Marble, 31 Biggest Everything in a Book: “Gone With the—" Hennery, what is the name of that darn book, anyway? Best Novel: ‘The Last Puritan,” by Mr. Santayana. Finest Movie Operetta: “The Gay Desperado,” with Nino Martini. Worst Parents of Year: Those who make little girls curtsey upon meeting adults. And those who try to make little boys call their adult friends “Un- cle” and “Aunt” So-and-so. Worst Movies: “Follow Your Heart” (misdemeanor); “Cain and Mabel” (mayhem); Anything with Gene Ray- mond (murder). Worst Memoirs: Those of Mabel Dodge Luhan—even worse than those of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Which is no faint praise, my boys. Best Brassiere Campaign: We've been working on this one for 11 months now, and have only managed to classify about nine thousand different cam. paigns. (There seems to be quite a bit of duplication in ideas, for some reason.) Best Jazz Bands: Benny Goodman, Shep Fields, Hal Kemp, and E. Duchin. Best Athlete: Jesse Owens. Greatest Mystery: What becomes of all those frightful smoking jackets that the department stores fill their windows with each December? The thing has got us so’s we just cain’t sleep. Most Important Scores: “Porgy and Bess.” NYU's one-point margin over Fordham's Famous “Blocks of Jello.” Most Striking Broadway Sign: Mr. Wrigley has the biggest, but we still think Mr. Kool’s Penguin is the best. Biggest Yawns in the News: Tommy Manville, the Quins, Medicine Man Di- vine, Mrs. Vanderbilt vs. Mrs. Whitney, Gypsy Rose Lee's press agent. Best Mag Cartoon: Peter Arno in “The New Yorker"—"Let's all go up to the Trans-lux and hiss Roosevelt.” Loudest Holler of “Uncle!": Mr. Hearst's appointment of the President's son-in-law, Mr. John Boettiger, as edi- tor of his Seattle paper. (Happy Land- ing, John!) Best Biography: “Jefferson,” by Claude Bowers, who can write. Yazzir! Best Art Exhibit: That of John Marin. (Why, you cluck, you save so heard of him!) Best Ad Campaigns: Heinz Foods, Calvert Whiskey, Oldsmobile, Arrow Shirts, White Rock. Folksiest Campaign: Paw and the Boys—makin’ that good ole whiskey in the ole Wilken parlor. Craziest Contest: The “Stork Der- by.” What some folks won't do for a little money is just beyond us! Best Wish: “Happy New Year!" From— Jupce Jr. (High Hat Awards on page 37) comicbooks.com