Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than that of politicians and petty graft. Actual proof of this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting to seduce both the Mayor's wife and daughter...
...small format. Business Manager Howard William Hailey explains that he had an itch to get hold of the national Sunday supplement Parade, which is syndicated by Marshall Field III. The savings the News will make (mostly by dropping its old Sunday magazine and reducing the size of its comic section) will more than pay for Parade...
...Favorite Blonde (Paramount) is sun-kissed Madeleine Carroll, nut-brown as a honey bear from her recent Bahaman excursion (TIME, March 9). This time she is the favorite of Comic Bob Hope, who blissfully lets her kick him around for ten reels of good slapsticky melodrama which all concerned seem to enjoy...
Would the boiler blow Dick Tracy through the roof? Would Joe Palooka best the Nazis? In Venezuela such questions called urgently for an answer. But the ships from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...
...many people in Venezuela last week the comic-strip shortage was a sudden reminder that the war was getting to be a serious business...