Soglow's Depression

WASN'T THE DEPRESSION TERRIBLE--O. Soglow and David G. Plotkin--Covici, Friede ($2). One hundred and five drawings in Cartoonist Soglow's more rowdy, bawdy, free-line manner, together with a treatise by Idea Man Plotkin on the "dialectical message that all is not on the level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker and the New Classes. The Little King appears only once. Other persons and places are new, if vaguely familiar.

In the U. S. butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear?''

And in this work is to be found the triple bread line: Rye. White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen.

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