Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Robert Williams, 69, rustic-humored creator of the cartoon series "Out Our Way"; of cancer and heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif...
...manageable 13, set to work composing a score to match the author's farcical tale of a provincial town paralyzed by the news that a civil-service inspector is on the way to investigate its lace-curtain vices. The Schwetzingen Festival (near Heidelberg) gave Composer Egk a handsome, cartoon-style production (by noted Stage Director Gunther Rennert), with the opera's townspeople outlandishly garbed in a mid-19th century assortment of green swallow-tailed coats, crimson velvet caps and propeller-sized bow ties. As the townspeople press money and the favors of their womenfolk on the "inspector...
...Wonderville Susan met droll, cantankerous Mr. Pegasus, whose elaborate Cartoon-a-Machine grunted out a canned Terrytoon. In the Foolish Forest she met an all-animal orchestra which included Wolfgang, the violin-playing bear, flop-eared Gregory, the rabbit flutist, and Bruce, the world's only drum-beating gopher-all ingeniously manipulated by wires backstage. Pegasus baited the conductor, Caesar P. Penguin: "He's the world's worst orchestra leader." Said Caesar: "This is not kind. In fact I am going to take umbrage; sometimes I have a headache and I take umbrage." While Caesar took umbrage...
...handicapped by the fact that when he had to draw a horse he had to see a horse. When he needed a steam roller as a cartoon symbol, the city council obligingly had one driven under the windows of his studio. An admirer also presented him with a stuffed lion. Low gave it away later, having already decided that the "Olympian pet-shop" of national symbols was not good enough for a real cartoonist...
...rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries and garbage"), and a screenful of Disney-like animals spouting slang. In a coy story-within-a-story device, a researcher (Dr. Frank Baxter) and a fiction writer (Richard Carlson) tried to make their material palatable to the cloddish cartoon animals. The total effect...