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...some 15 years Cartoonist Robert LeRoy Ripley has derived wealth and fame from his feature "Believe It Or Not," graphically reporting curiosities from all over the world. Fortnight ago the New York Evening Post was endeavoring to syndicate a similar feature, depicting marvels like the above, not yet in the world but which might exist. Title: CAN IT BE DONE...
...Cartoonist Lumen Winter supplies the drawings for the Post series, which was originally turned down by King Features Syndicate. Inventor Gross says he has an unlimited supply of material for his series. Anyone who wants to cash in on one of his notions may do so with his compliments...
Walter Huston, who got practice for his rôle by playing Presidents Grant and Lincoln in earlier cinemas, tries a little too hard to look like a Hearst cartoonist's idea of a benevolent dictator, but he sounds impressive. A little disappointing is the performance of Franchot Tone-the ablest young stage actor who migrated to Hollywood from Broadway last year-in a rôle which requires him to supply simultaneously romantic interest and the austerity proper to his station...
...modern British cartoonist is cursed by tender regard for the sensitive feelings of his subjects almost to the ruin...
...Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself...