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Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...
Cardinal principle in comic-strip cartooning: Never permit your characters to change...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...