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This theme-the old South in an agonizing self-appraisal-is subtly stitched through most of Baldy's work, now and then shows up with stark clarity, as in the cartoon that won him a Sigma Delta Chi award last month (see cut). No integrationist, Atlanta's Baldy crusades only for reason. "As far as I'm concerned," he says, "the only thing worse than mixing the races in school is closing the schools. But my mother doesn't feel as strongly about segregation as her mother felt...
...heady old days of the Mexican Revolution, stormy Communist Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros used to complain loudly that he was always the fall guy for his comrades: "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested." With the death of Orozco in 1949 and then Diego Rivera in 1958, Siqueiros at 63 is today the sole survivor of the Big Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation...
...collection of his Voice pieces came out a few years ago, entitled Sick, Sick, Sick, and now Passinonella and Other Stories, a collection of four longer cartoon features, is also among us. They can be read, or rather looked through, in about a half hour apiece, and this is pretty quick considering that Passionella retails for $1.75 in paperback. But there is not much else to do except to plunk down even these enormous sums, unless you can borrow, steal, or arrange to be given the books, because Mr. Feiffer is a deft, knowledgeable and brilliantly witty cartoonist, satirist...
Featured along with Street of Shame are a conventionally violent cartoon and a Henry Fonda-narrated short about Grant Wood...
Preceded by a delightful cartoon fantasy called The Peppermint Tree, The Sweet Smell of Success brings back to the Brattle good entertainment without subtitles, and the change is welcome...