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This page contains **movie reviews** and **advertising**, not political cartoons. The small cartoon (top left) illustrates a Squibb's Dental Cream advertisement, showing a man discarding something into a trash bin—a simple visual gag about oral hygiene for smokers. The substantive content critiques early **"talking pictures"** (talkies). The reviewer complains that: - Sound technology is crude and unrealistic (a character's laugh sounds like a locomotive) - Romantic scenes become absurd when every breath is audible - Studios cast singers like Baclanova simply because they can sing, regardless of story quality - The financial advice in "The Wolf of Wall Street" (buy low, sell high) is comically simplistic The page also advertises a weight-loss product (**Marmola**), referencing that "Paris forbade fat" and claiming science can reduce excess weight through gland correction—typical 1920s advertising pseudoscience. The overall tone is satirical about cinema's awkward transition from silent to sound film.

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INSIDE NEW § I1’s the stuff inside that makes you. And here’s a bit of inside news that will make your smoking appetite forever sturdy and smil- ing. Use Squibb’s Dental Cream. Squibb’s is a grand thing for smokers because it contains over 50% Milk of Magnesia. The mi- nute particles that penetrate the mouth crevices not only fight acid- ity, but also keep your breath sweet and your taste lively and pleasant. Just as soon as you can, start using Squibb’s Dental Cream. Your whole smoking day will be- come brisker and brighter. On sale at all druggists at 40c @ generous tube. Copyright 1929 by E. R. Squibb & Sons GUARD THE DANGER LINE Life Movies (Continued from Page 23) The customary note is left for the husband, but after meeting her lover, circumstances cause her to change her mind, and she hurries home in the hope of destroying the tell-tale note before her husband can read it. The element of surprise is well carried out, and I will leave the answer untold as I think it will add to your enjoyment. The inability of the talkies to reg- ister certain sounds in a realistic man- ner is forcibly brought out in this pic- ture. For instance, Mr. Warner's dia- bolical chuckle reminds you of a loco- motive starting on a slippery track. And when Miss Chatterton becomes hysteri- cal, the result is an odd and sundry collection of noises which defeats the purpose of the scene. Equally ineffec- tive is the love making between Ruth and Mr. Loder, I am sure we all en- joy a display of the deeper emotions, but it becomes something else again when each passionate heave of the chest rings out as clearly as though you were listening in with a stethoscope. The weak spots in “The Doctor's Secret” may bore you, but the last scenes are worth the price. “The Wolf of Wall Street” HE Wolf of Wall Street” is not a good picture, but the advertise- ments state that, “George Bancroft talks ... Baclanova sings...” so the public flocks in to satisfy its cu- riosity. Thank Heaven the sound of the human voice will soon cease to be a novelty on the screen, and pro- ducers may then find it necessary to provide a story with each featured film as an extra added attraction. The plot of this one is a bedtime tale for the kiddies on how to make a fortune in Wall Street. George Ban- croft, the financial dictator of the Street, calls the members of his power- ful syndicate together and edifies them with a blackboard demonstration dur- ing which he evolves this original and intricate formula: First—Buy stocks when they are low. Second—Sell when they are high. Third—Repeat until rich, And you should have seen their faces! No talkie nowadays is complete un- less a star sings. When they were casting “The Wolf of Wall Street” somebody, in an odd moment, remem- bered that Baclanova was formerly in Russian Opera—so into the picture they dragged this excellent actress by the vocal chords, In the closing scenes she sings two numbers, and they are certainly enjoyable, but during the pre- vious hour and a half you sit forward in your seat with your ears cocked and (Continued on Page 29) Fashion Forbade It A few years ago, Paris forbade fat. All her styles were created for the slen Then there came a tide of disappro roval for t obesity, both in men and women. Youth and beauty, health and vigor demanded i its reduction. Then science came in. It found that a great cause of excess fat lay in a defective gland. By thousands of experiments on animals it found that excess fat could be banished by correcting this deficiency. That is one great reason why excess fat has n disappearing fast. You see that in every circle. Slender figures are the rule, Mothers look like daughters. Not by starving, not by over-work, but by scientific measures. The greatest factors in this fight on fat are embodied in Marmola prescription tablets. People have used them for over 20 years— millions of boxes of them. Users have told others the results. Thus, year by year, the use has grown until it is now enormous. Try this modern method. No abnormal exercise or diet is required. Correct the cause. Watch the fat go, aay by day. Watch the new health and new vigor. Do it because this is the right way and thetried way toend obesity. Don’t delay. Many new joys are waiting for you when you get weight down to normal. 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