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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Student Artists | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephen R. Barneyy, | Title: The Honeys | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephen R. Barneyy, | Title: The Honeys | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

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