Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startling comic effect was achieved by Cpl. Henry S. Leff, who was solemnly hailed as a man who would sing a very ancient Russian song, and abruptly exploded into "The Music Goes Round and Round" with gestures--and what gestures! His expansive smile and wild and swings set the company rocking will laughter...
...York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age. For years Director Ernst Lubitsch has been able to see more light touches in his cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate invention lags, many spectators will be only too glad to concentrate on the Eastern beauty of Gene Tierney...
...Dentist Jim." In the comic strip King of the Royal Mounted there used to be a character, "Dentist Jim," who visited Alaska's ports on a small ship with a sightly daughter. Dr. Good has heard that he and Anna are the originals but has never bothered to look up the comic. He was continually amazed at the need for dentistry in Alaska and wonders what his old friends do now for their aching jaws. If a dentist's office can be pleasant, the chair on the gently swaying deck, with halyards, birds and daughter Anna to look...
...sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...
Conclusions. Wrote Professor Hill: "Much is being written about the 'menace' of the comics. Unfortunately a distinction is not always drawn between comic magazines and the comics of the daily papers. In [my] opinion, most of the latter are quite harmless. ... [I doubt] that the reading of [newspaper] comics would do any serious harm to a child's vocabulary attainments. Most of the words used would, in fact, tend to help him build vocabulary meanings. . . . We need to be much more concerned about the total effect of the comics on the attitudes and ethical concepts of children...