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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...
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...
Hollywood goes on trial tonight at the Law School Forum when Al Capp, Faye Emerson, Spyros Skouras, and Bosley Crowther discuss the topic "Are Movies Better than Ever?" The Forum begins at 8 p.m. at Cambridge High and Latin...
Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp started it by reviewing Albert Rapp's The Origins of Wit and Humor for the New York Times Book Review. Author Rapp, professor of classical languages at the University of Tennessee, is no credit to the joke business, wrote Capp: "He has a way with a joke, like Use Koch had with a tattoo. He skins 'em alive." Last week the Times let writer and reviewer scrap it out in Dogpatch style. Capp, wrote Professor Rapp, "has obviously not heard of the psychological experiments...