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Died. Charlotte Carr, 66, gusty, bushy-browed social worker, successor to the late Jane Addams as head (1937-43) of Chicago's famed slum settlement Hull House, head of all home relief in teeming New York City during the hard-pressed mid-'30s of a heart attack; in...
Michael Biddle is the exhibit's most imaginative contributor. His pictures tend to be ghoulish or cartoonish. Charles Addams is a notable influence. The ink and wash study of a farmer looking at a hanging man struck this reviewer as one of his better works, in many ways reminiscent of...
Marriage Revealed. Charles Addams, 43, bats-and-werewolves cartoonist of The New Yorker; and Barbara Barb, 35, New York lawyer; both for the second time; on Dec. 1, 1954; in Florence, S.C.
The Honeys is not based on the cartoons of Charles Addams-but it might as well be. The play concerns two sisters-in-law who have a perfectly marvelous time murdering their husbands. Its author revels in such lines as "He probably ate his wife" or "The poison will perforate...
One of the best things about an Addams cartoon is its abruptness. The Honeys suffers mainly because it is not abrupt enough; the macabre spirit wears off too early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head...