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...called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk...
...symphony subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a Perambulator in which are described the reactions of an infant taking its daily excursion to the lake front; with Krazy Kat, sensitive, half-sad music for George Herriman's comic-strip characters; with a finely made Concertino for Piano & Orchestra...
...almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
...that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD...
...subscriber and a consistent reader of your much-admired "mag" I think it is within my province to criticize your remark on p. 23 of your Nov. 16 issue of TIME in regard to motion picture heads commenting on RKO-Radio combine in which you state and comment upon comic-strip remarks of Jewish motion picture heads such as "Vait till ve see vat Radio vill...