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CATCALLS - Peggy Bacon - McBride ($2.50). For her collection of caricatures, Off with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse...
...company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed concerns the efforts of Groucho and associates to get Ricardo a job in the opera company and further his amour with Rosa. To U. S. audiences...
...Sneezes, shivers, yawns, hiccoughs; sucks vigorously; moves trunk and extremities...
...paint attracted Chang's attention. He lumbered over, poked his trunk through the bars and with a determined swipe, cleaned off the surface first covered. So it went with the elephant removing the paint as fast as Mr.Abraham applied it and when the noon hour arrived the score was tie no runs, no hits, no errors...
...this W. P. A. job was another of those numerous New York City boondoggling projects--and Chang wanted to show his intelligent disapproval of it. His spirit is to be admired but his error of judgment to be lamented. He has nothing to show for his zeal but a trunk and torso sadly plastered with red paint. Which reminds us that a critic these days is very likely to get smeared...