Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less famed than "Mickey Mouse" is the animated cartoon "Betty Boop." Claiming that the latter is a too palpable imitation of her own lisping seductive mannerisms, Singer Helen ("Boop-Boopa~ Doop") Kane filed suit against the Max Fleischer Studios and Paramount-Publix Corp...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick proposed to introduce color-printing in his daily editions. Lately have appeared Tribune advertisements with two colors at a time worked into them. Last week the colorful Tribune of the future was again sharply foreshadowed to its 813,708 readers by the appearance of a colored cartoon on the Tribune's big bold front page...
...subject of the cartoon (Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, defying Louisiana's loud Democratic Senator Huey Pierce Long) and the caption ("The real issue in Washington . . . Patriotism vs Communism") were not very exciting. But the U. S. flag held by Senator Robinson and a Communist banner brandished by Senator Long, were in vivid, eye-smashing red. The U. S. flag's blue field was not shown; there was no other color in the picture. But the force of the cartoon was immeasurably increased by its red blotches. A patriotic eye could even imagine...
...city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire...
...cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols and someone else threw out an empty cartoon of ice cream, in self defense one must surmise and thereby rose the tale. And that about the lurid detail of swinging red lanterns? We believe someone saw one. Having learned to rely on New England conservatism on almost all occasions we had trusted glowing headlines and expected worse...