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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...store sign, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," into a picture. Curly-headed Son Mark is now saving pennies to buy his father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark...
...engaging job of muckraking is America's House of Lords. Author Ickes sounds like what he is: a public official who has on occasion been irritated beyond endurance by things he read in the papers. Having said his piece, he concludes: "I feel better about the American press now than I did six months ago," presumably winds up his debate...
...about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
Sing Something Simple (Maxine Sullivan; Victor). Of interest not only to popular musical antiquarians (it is from the 1930 Second Little Show) but because Miss Sullivan (Loch Lomond) now sings refined, like all the mediocre white singers before they began imitating...
...Seltzer, etc. But war put the commercial "outlaws" out of business-precariously situated Luxembourg for reasons of neutrality, Normandie and other French stations for la belle propaganda. This left blacked-out Britishers wholly at the mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone recordings, funereal discourses like What Happens When I Die. In the House of Commons, Laborite Arthur Greenwood groused loudly against Britain's radio "Weeping Willies"; the press clamored for Weeping Willie to be given the sack...