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When Jascha Heifetz, fiddle in hand, moved to Decca Records, musicians guessed that Decca, the largest manufacturers of Tin Pan Alley records, pined to go highbrow. But last week it looked as if Decca had given Longhair Heifetz a short haircut...
...humbly proud both of being a Catholic and of my Scottish blood, I deplore the disservice your correspondent, the Rev. Donald MacLeod, does to that honorable name in the March 11 issue. . . . His contemptuous "tin horns" of Catholicism is only to be answered by the response, "Shame!" Were he a layman I should reply, "The back-of me hand...
...Donald MacLeod's letter entitled "Red Hats, Tin Horns" reminds me of the story of the Irishman, who, when his friend asked him if he had joined the Protestant Church on losing his faith in the Catholic, rejoined: "Begorra, I might have lost my faith, but I haven't lost my head...
...three Cs: Christianity, the cold bath and cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...
...cree-ay-ter of the gratest comical stripp in all cree-ay-shun, naimly 'Peerless Fosdick,' who is mah ideel. . . . Lately, other comical stripp cree-ay-ters bin cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...