Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year the Little King made his debut in cinema. As an animated cartoon, his success was inconspicuous. A beardless variation of the Little King was created for an advertising series in which the diminutive monarch, grown suddenly articulate, dealt didactically with the merits of Standard Oil's Red Crown Super-fuel. For Borden's Ice Cream Soglow gave the King a son, the Crown Prince of Ice-Creamia, an amusing little moppet who behaved much like his father. For Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store Soglow drew a Queen who strangely exercised her royal prerogatives by appearing publicly...
Riffling through the papers in his hotel-room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
...whole vast humanitarian surges for the elimination of the sweatshops and child labor are perverted in such a cartoon as appeared in yesterday's Tribune, which advertises a non-existent situation to become stark propaganda for the return of both sweatshops and child labor...
...includes an all-star cast of non-entities. An adamant, self-centered grandfather, his estranged daughter and her son, and a harmless professor are all brought together at the end to form one big, happy family. There is an excellent short of hunting coyotes by airplane. A whimateal cartoon, "Robin Hood" and a Thelma Todd comedy complete a bill that will well repay a few hours snatched from the last-minute cram...
...lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's smart Publicity Chief Howard Dietz, who has written Manhattan musical shows for the past five years, Hollywood Party should have been one of the funniest pictures of the season. That most of its antics turn...