Judge — February 1937 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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That Girl from Paris. Not as entertaini as it was some years ago when it was called “Street Singer,” this one has some coloratura exercises by Lily Pons, one or two amusing Jack Oakie scenes, and a nice easy-going man- ner about it. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. tripe is the word for pictures like this, Winterset. The outstanding play of the past season bids fair to be the outstanding movie of this season despite : phoney Hollywood ending. Burgess Meredith and Margo are ex- cellent in the leading réles, And BOOKS Ted Shane A New American History, by W. E. Woodward. In 875 meaty pages, with all the fat cut away, our debunker No. 1, bemoaning with the days of nude dealer Henry VIII an ending with the reign of Roosevelt II, keeps right on debunking. Gosh, in time a fellow won't have nothing to believe in! For The Sake of Shadows, sy Max Miller. The honest artist of the waterfront walks the streets of Hollywood but fiops as a literary prostitute. Very sober and sound stuff. Honorable Estate, by Vera Brittain. Ve capable lady writer doing a very capable ji on three generations. How’s for one with four generations now, toots? Kalmar & Ruby's Songbook. Tonsil tor- ture from a pair of our leading tinpanners, with appropriate and often very funny fore- words i Groucho Marx, J. K. McGuinness, Nunnally Johnson, Marc Connelly and other brighties. Ladies In Love, by Lidislaus Bus Fekete. You slept thru the movie; now sleep thru the book. Laughing Gas, by P. G. Wodehouse. After a series of joe millers, the Shelley of the bellylaugh kicks thru with a goshdarn funny one about two leading gents who get their personalities switched under the influence of dentist effluvia. Rich Man, Poor Man, by Janet Fairbanks, Extra! Depression Over! Pop Dame Novelist Writes Sympathetic Study of Wealthy Chi- cago Banking Family. Story of 1912 to 1929 Told Accurately! Radicals Get Told Of! Romantic Adventure, 6y Elinor Glyn. 1 looked and I looked but I'll be damned if I could find any romance or any adventure. There was a lot of snobbery, plenty of lords mentioned by name and talk of reincarnation. Shining Scabbard, by RC. Hutchinson. ‘A macabre dandy told with a fiendish Poeish- ness all about the hardluck of the Severins, a family treeful of nuts. Test Tube Baby, 4y Sam Fuller. Peggy, a fascinating wench who may not have eaten her spinach but who knew her onions, meets Jimmy Garrison, whose only gods have been the Clock & Perfection. Yippee! The Whispering Window, ty Cortland | Fitzsimmons. The master of whodunits in | which Babe Ruths croak with 2 out in the last of the ninth, bases full, 2 strikes and 3 balls, score 4 to 1 against the Yanks—turns to the social scene. His sleuth’s an old maid in Edna Mae Oliver's panties and besides being amusing the yarn’s good. Theory & Practise of Socialism, 4) John Strachey. With 1/6th of the world rattin, on the capitalist system, the able Mr. feels he must restate What many, smug with Roosevelt, think is a dead bunny. Great for beginners on socialism. There's No Place Like Home, 4y Beverly Nichols, The Brocade & Pansy Fancier swishes around Europe and the Holy Land and returns home all adither just in time to lose himself among the daffydills and get off this travelogue for the Helen Hokinson literary club winter trade. RECORDS Dave Thompson Classical Bach: Toccata in D Major; Fantasia in G Minor; Fugue in C Major. Harpsichord Solos by Yella Pessl (Columbia Master- works). Miss Pessl gives us thrilling rendi- tions, flawless and satisfying, on these two double-sided 12” discs. Beethoven: Lecnore Overture No. 3 by the Vienna Philbarmonic Orchestra, con- ducted by Bruno Walter (Victor Master- piece), Here is a sure-fire combination and the result is a disc which belongs in anyone's collection. Debussy: La Cathédrale Engloutie. Piano Solo by Walter Gieseking (Columbia Masterworks). Another “natural.” Gieseking is not only one of the world’s most dis- tinguished pianists, but is also its ablest exponent of Debussy’s music. These facts are amply proven in this delightful recording. Rossini: Italian in Algiers—Overture by Arturo Toscanini and the Philbarmonic-Sym- phony Orchestra of New York (Victor Mas- terpiece). Every sible superlative can be rightfully applied to this fantastically bril- liant_ disc which was recorded at the same classic session which gave us the Wagner Album and the Beethoven 7th. This has the added attraction of being within the price- range of all music-lovers. Best Steppers I've Got You Under My Skin & Easy To Love sung by Virginia Bruce (Brunswick). Two of the songs from MGM's “Born To Dance” acceptably sung by one of our more alluring screen-stars, The ¢unes have also been recorded by Hal Kemp and his orches- tra for the same firm. 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