Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the decree forbade publication of "statements affecting the neutrality of the Argentine Republic ... or its friendly relations with other countries," the pro-Axis newspaper Pampero discontinued its anti-U.S. cartoons. But irrepressible Horn carried a social note: "Monday morning von Thermann visited Castillo," embellished the story with a cartoon of Thermann's head on a hog plastered with swastikas...
...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...
More interesting are the Colonel's new efforts to prove that his isolationist heart is in the right place. He enlisted noisily in the "Smokes for Yanks" campaign, thereby inspiring Col. Frank Knox's Daily News to its best cartoon of the year. Few days later the Colonel sought to undercut a more serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer...
...doesn't have a single redeeming feature. Poorly constructed and weakly east, it started out with two strikes and the direction added a third. Mischa Auer tries so hard to be funny that he isn't. Proper timing will permit you to escape this and still catch an excellent cartoon and Endicott Peabody II on the Movietone News All-American...
Dumbo (Disney; RKO Radio) takes Walt Disney back to the animals. His fifth full-length cartoon movie, profiting from the shortcomings of its predecessors, is notable for its freedom from the puppeteering of Snow White, the savage satire of Pinocchio, the artiness of Fantasia, and the woolgathering of The Reluctant Dragon. Like Three Little Pigs, Dumbo is a catchy fable with a moral...