Word: abner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laughs and looks marked the Law School Forum on "Are Movies Better Than Ever?" at the Cambridge High and Latin School last night. A capacity crowd of over 1,500 saw and heard Al Capp, creator of L'il Abner, Bosley Crowther, New York Times movie editor, Faye Emerson, TV and movie star, and Spros Skouras, president of 20th Century Fox, alternately insult and kiss one another as they scored and praised the motion picture industry...
Capp and Miss Emerson maintained the negative. The brains behind L'il Abner took greatest offence at the advertising which comes out of Hollywood. He claimed that even A pictures, which differ from B pictures merely because they cost more money, can count on drawing a maximum audience of only 13 to 15 million...
...This leaves 40 million of us intellectually mature people, all fans of L'il Abner, who don't go to movies." Capp said the reason was that movies "seek the low level" of this small audience. He explained that he "wrote up" to his audience...
Cartoonist Capp, creator of the comic strip "Li'l Abner," will evaluate the effect of the comics on the movies. As a former Hollywood scenario writer, he should be able to compare the typical movie and comic strip audience...
...Editor Mathews served his apprenticeship), the Dictionary of Americanisms includes only those stamped unmistakably with the label "Made in U.S.A." To find them, Mathews plowed through the 100 volumes of the Colonial Records of New England, searched back issues of The New Yorker and TIME, followed Li'l Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao...