Now the women take their turn at hysteria. Sinatra begins to croon the lyrics of "It Had to be You" into a ribbon microphone. A large, male orderly pushes the Sinatra character in a wheelchair. The gray, blanketed, emaciated character, overemphasizing Sinatra's real-life physique, enters on the cover of The Voice in the Wilderness. As she begins to spank her "naughty boy", a new singing voice and caricature appear, namely that of Frank Sinatra. Referencing a catchphrase of the popular radio program The Aldrich Family, the king's "mother" calls out, "Hen-REEEE! Henry the Eighth!" "Coming, mother!" is the king's cracking-voice reply, and he runs to the book cover where Mother waits. The catcalls continue with Henry VIII also howling like a wolf and then barking like a seal. The Sea Wolf's howl segués into a sentence, "How ooooold is she?" The now-panting Shakespeare silhouette's inner workings explode in a shower of gears and clocksprings. Book covers for The Whistler and The Sea Wolf show their characters shouting and whistling at the off-screen action. A striptease is about to begin on the cover of Cherokee Strip. On a book titled Young Man with a Horn, a caricature of Harry James breaks loose with a jazz trumpet obbligato similar to James' "You Made Me Love You", instead resolving into the standard, "It Had to Be You". On a book cover called Complete Works of Shakespeare, Shakespeare is shown in silhouette while his literally-rendered "works" are clockwork mechanisms, along with old-fashioned "stop" and "go" traffic signals, set to the "ninety years without slumbering, tick-tock, tick-tock" portion of "My Grandfather's Clock". Then, an inebriated "cuckoo bird" pops out of a cuckoo clock to announce the arrival of midnight and signal the "cuckoo" activities to follow. The title is a pun, as a revue is a variety show, while a review is an evaluation of an artwork this pun is however not retained in the reissue.Īfter midnight at a closed bookstore, there are strains of "Moonlight Sonata".
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