"slums", "pit" and "darkness" -> lexical field suggests that there is something special in a run down area
"changing colour" -> light and sound - new technology would have been wonderful and magical to him - a chance to see something different? view life in a different way?
"musical asthma" -> it's something beautiful but not quite right - takes your breath away?
"When the Broadway Baby says Goodnight it's Early in the morning'" -> he may be watching Gold Diggers of 1935 - these are lyrics from a song in it called Lullaby of Broadway - strongly links to Larkin and how he writes about the importance of music in his poems
"poor ragged Goldilocks", "glycerine tears" -> there's something fake/false about the tears - they're not quite genuine -> glycerine is very sweet
"cuff-linked Cary Grant", "elegance of chandeliers", "(No files on Cary. No holes in his socks.)" -> Cary Grant is a very famous and talented early Hollywood film star
"Woodbine smoke swirled", "THE END" -> very visual - smoke is quite abstract and relates to when people could smoke in cinemas (public places) - it maybe suggesting the same things about the film -> "THE END" is how most old films end
"malice of the dreary" -> cinema was his escape and now he must return to mundane life
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