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...Freeman F. ("Amos") Gosden and Charles J. ("Andy") Correll's radio skits, surprised the radiaudience by speaking out for the first time. Since last Christmas when Andy, who had met Mme Queen as a manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there...
...Must Be True and Heartaches (Co-lumbia)-Guy Lombardo's horns a bit more honeyed than usual...
...dancing madly to the original Jungle Band. Otherwise the erotic element is not as hot as its geographic position would indicate. The abstraction of the lovely white goddess, Nina (played by Miss Booth) from her Tanganyikan homestead, in the teeth of the united tribes of Africa, is a bit unconvincing. Even the faultless characterization of Trader Horn by Harry Carey, played up by the juvenile lead, fails to bring power to a mediocre plot...
...gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour. The Vagabond breathed his wonted sigh. Like Cowper's "John Gilpin" he had gone a bit...
Sirs: Your magazine deserves everything good which has been said of it. BUT-you have certainly fallen off a bit in this week's issue. Imagine a grown-up magazine devoting a whole column to ''finger counting"-the lowest form of human amusement. Incredible! What if Senor Calles' baby appeared rather suddenly-what if a flock of ''old ladies of both sexes" write you about it-aren't you BIG enough to say nothing? Grow up! FRANK J. TONIS...