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...animated characters resumed a career that had made him celebrated as the comic foil of Groucho Marx, George Burns and, most memorably, Jack Benny. It was for the Benny show that he regularly played a polar bear, an antique car, a "Union Depot train caller" ("Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc . . . amonga!"), a parrot, a Mexican ("What's your name?" "Sy." "Sy?" "Si"), and the choleric Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher: "Meester Be-nee, could I have some water, please?" "Water? Yes. There's some in the cooler down the hall." "That ees not enough. I would like to drown myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toontownie That's Not All Folks! | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Italy carries away top honors in The World in Flames with three picture-stealing scenes. The first shows bearded Count Dino Grandi on a visit to Washington in 1931 announcing that "Italy-a wants-a peace-a. Italy-a wants-a cooperation-a anda understanding-a amonga all-a the nations-a of the world-a." The second is Mussolini standing on a speaker's platform puffing, pouting and pleased over the cheers of his people. The third reproduces one of the most tragic and dramatic moments in modern history-Haile Selassie pleading for aid before the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unpulled Punches | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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