Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pedro's Cow. In the more advanced villages, the Apostles had no great problem. In others, a week of education usually did the trick. Everyone was invited to a free movie, comic books were passed out to all children, telling the absorbing story of Pedro, Ambrosia, their little daughter and their cow. First the cow gave buckets of milk, and the little girl had dolls and shoes. Then the cow got aftosa: Pedro's daughter became sad, skinny and barefoot. Finally came vaccination and the happy ending...
...sure what I'll do now," Russell explains. "I certainly would like a better reason for being refused than I got." Admitting, however, that the WHBS give-away program might be considered somewhat contrived if closely examined, Russell thought that he would probably let the comic's agents have the last words...
Died. Edgar ("Slow Burn") Kennedy, 58, bald, veteran cinema comic (henpecked star of The Average Man two-reelers); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...
There is a universal felling among Hollywood writers that no musical is complete without heartbreaking tragedy. The phony tearjerker in "When My Baby Smiles At Me" centers around Dan Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply...