Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 50, worked up into cartooning the hard way. Born in the industrial city of Superior, Wis., he was kicked out of high school at 16 because he spent his time drawing instead of studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking...
...could give a show there. The Cook home itself had only gas. Joe grew to be the only claimant of 18-ball juggling and had a picture of himself doing it, the balls suspended by invisible wires. When he began talking on stage as he talked in rehearsal, his comic gift appeared. Once when he was running over the line "ugh" for an Indian part, he remarked: "I don't know if I can sustain the emotion." Cook Book included Joe's most colossal gadget - the Fuller Construction Company Symphony Orchestra - and carried the crackpot through vaudeville...
...Miss Blondell is not a mother. She is a stenographer who spends most of her time avoiding the advances of her boss's son and keeping her marriage to boyish Dick Powell secret (the boss would fire her if she knew). This tiresome routine is not lightened by Comic Charles Ruggles, whose comedy consists of cracking his knuckles and playing drunk...
...musicomedy right down the Hollywood groove, Pot o' Gold teams up America's favorite doughboy, James Stewart with prancing Paulette Goddard, Comic Charles Winninger, adds Horace Heidt's muscular orchestra for a bracer, bind them together with the radio program Pot o' Gold ($1,000 to the lucky person who answers the telephone when Bandmaster Heidt calls from the studio...
...fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak...