Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casualties. Theoreticians of the movies in 1929, pondering the box office of Broadway Melody and wondering if the talkies were here to stay, could not have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee...
...Russo-German rapprochement, refused to get excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks the U. P. had been filling in weak spots in Europe, acting on the assumption that war would...
Last week he came upon something beyond clucking or smiling over-a disturbingly prophetic cartoon. Published in 1919, it showed Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando leaving the Peace Conference, the treaty on the floor, a child labeled "1940 Class" standing with head bowed behind a pillar. Caption: THE TIGER: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping...
...Call had reprinted the cartoon from the London Daily Herald, for whom it was drawn by Australian-born William Henry Dyson. Will Dyson had been fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism...
...hard to explain. He recalls that he became "socially conscious" at 19, when he went from deeply socialistic New Zealand to deeply laborite Australia. But for all his savage conviction, he is still a sly humorist. The words he puts in the mouth of his most famous cartoon creation, globular, mustached Colonel Blimp, archtype of the Tory diehard, are an acid parody of Conservative thought. Sample: "Come, come, let's be fair to Franco...