LOOK! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * The Saturday Review of Literature Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * ISSUE DATE: August 30, 1947; Vol. XXX. No. 34, IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (See SRL's New Supplement, RECORDINGS). Cover Drawing by Frances O'Brien. ARTICLE: TILLEY THE TOILER, a Profile of The New Yorker Magazine, By Russell Maloney. SRL RECORDINGS FOR SEPTEMBER, A NEW SRL SUPPLEMENT [This is the FIRST Issue that includes this long-running recordings section!]: Impressions, by Irving Kolodin, New Editor, SRL Recordings. LEAD/COVER article: The Fame and Legend of Heitor Villa-Lobos, by Nicholas Slonimsky. Pax Petrillo, by Irving Kolodin. Putting "Space" into Opera Recordings, by Virgil Thompson. Music For Use, by Edward Tatnall Canby. How bands are made, by Eddie Condon. [With photo of him and guitar]. Reviews of the month, by Irving Kolodin. Scratching the Surface, by Oscar Levant. Broadway on Main street, by George Freedley. Some Highs and Lows, by Wentworth D. Fling. The Jazz Beat, by Gilbert McKean. Hits and Misses, by Wilder Hobson. The Younger Set, by Marie L. Mutch. Current Releases, Inported recordings, Record Mart. BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN MEMOIR By Henry Seidel Canby, Reviewed by Bernard DeVoto. SOME DAYS WERE HAPPY By Louis Sobol, Reviewed by Sara Henderson Hay. SMOKE OVER BIRKENAU By Seweryna Szmaglewska, Reviewed by Robert Pick. OPERATION MOSCOW By Christopher Norborg, Reviewed by Louis Fischer. THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS By John C. Campbell, Reviewed by Lindsay Rogers. NOT Now BUT Now By M. F. K. Fisher, Reviewed by Harrison Smith. THE END OF MY LIFE By Vance Bourjaily, THE DEAD TREE GIVES No SHELTER By Virgil Scott, SEVENTH AVENUE STORY By Martin Abzug, Reviewed by Merle Miller. THE TOM-WALKER By Man Sandoz, Reviewed by Nathan L. Rotlhman. Mr FATHER'S HOUSE By Meyer Lavin, Reviewed by John Woodburn. CHALLENGE OF THE UNKNOWN By Louis K. Anspacher, Reviewed by Francis W. Leary . THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RUMOR By Gordon W. Allport and Leo Postman, Reviewed by Edward L. Bernays. EVOLUTION AND ETHICS By Sir Arthur Keith, Reviewed by J. Lawrence Angel. THE CAPTAIN'S TIGER By Jerome' Weidman, HOWE HUMMEL By Richard H. Rovere, Reviewed by Harry A. Bull. DEPARTMENTS: TRADE WINDS By Bennett Cerf. EDITORIAL. LETTERS O THE EDITOR. LITERARY I.Q. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. THE PHOENIX NEST By William Rose Benet. LITERARY CRYPT. DOUBLE-CROSTIC No. 701. Prominent Advertisements (Especially for new BOOKS, and in this issue RECORDINGS!) include: "LA TRAVIATA" first Post-War Recording! on COLUMBIA" New RCA Recordings by JOSHUA HEIFETZ, Joseph ITURBI, Pierre MONTEAUX (With photos of each!). Listen to America on DECCA Records! * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always exactly the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 This RARE edition standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11", is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) A great snapshot of the time, and a terrific Birthday present or Anniversary gift! [Especially for the readers on your list!] Careful packaging, Fast shipping, ALL GUARANTEED --