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...Peking: "America is Public Enemy No. 1. From billboards and posters, through the press, film and radio, in incessant speeches and slogans, the U.S. is reviled as an imperialist and an aggressor. Even the mild-mannered Madame Sun Yat-sen chuckled with glee when drawing our attention to a cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia-educated Chinese interpreter who, while favoring American-style clothes and flaunting an American fountain pen, carefully made...
...moral: if this review instills in you an unquenchable desire to run all the way to the Orpheum with eighty-five cents clutched in your hot, sweaty little palm, get there by eight-thirty. On second thought, try eight-fifteen. There may be a cartoon...
...This is it," says a young man in a pink union suit, as the curtain closes on the first of three play lets. But, luckily it isn't. Following Sid Gorman's The Center, which seems an obtuse animation of an Abner Dean cartoon the poets enact two less murky and much more enjoyable play lets. The best of these and perhaps the only real theater of the evening, is Richard Eberhardt's The Visionary Farms...
...cartoon is really an editorial," Cartoonist Rollin Kirby once said. "It must be judged by what it says rather than the way in which it says it, and what art there is in cartooning is the art of driving the message home." For more than 40 years, slim, courtly Rollin Kirby practiced this art with such skill that he had few peers in U.S. newspaperdom...
...Prohibition, which he pictured as "Mr. Dry," a sniveling, psalm-singing, bluenosed personification of cant and bigotry. When the Ku Klux Klan invaded the Midwest in the '20s, Kirby flayed its leaders mercilessly. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, the last in 1928 for a pro-Al Smith cartoon, 'Tammany!", which showed a paunchy, string-tied figure labeled "G.O.P." raising his hands in horror at the very thought of Tammany Hall, while behind him stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot...