Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students of Penn State publish the Penn State Froth, clever college comic magazine. Last week appeared the parody number. Those magazines "parodied" included Liberty, True Confessions, Amazing Stories, and TIME. I am sending you the parody page of TIME. I think you will find it "curt, clear, complete...
...Changed His Name (by Edgar Wallace; Frank Conroy, producer) This tragi-comic study of a pair of guilty consciences is said to have been prolific Playwright Wallace's favorite script chiefly because it is one of his few opera which presents not a single corpse. Not long before the playwright's death his friend Actor-Manager Conroy acquired the producing rights to the play and it is largely due to his nimbly raised eyebrows and innocently malicious innuendoes that The Man Who Changed His Name contains two plausibly amusing acts, the first and second...
...Rudolph Dirks's "Captain & the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault Hearst lured Outcault to the Journal. Meanwhile the Journal's new "Katzenjammer Kids" had struck popular fancy. The World saw its chance...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...
...novelettes make up his latest scourge. Mostly they belabor comic futilities, backgrounded by that darker "murderous destructiveness which makes people go on destroying themselves when they've nothing better to destroy." Most guileless, most amusing, is the tale of Oswald, "the compleat bachelor," who longs only for a continuance of slippered ease and financial assistance from his dominating aunt. An overdraft at the bank sends him to her for help. She, concerned that he is not advancing in a "career," gives him hark-from-the-tomb. To pacify her, Oswald, to his own horror, suggests that he become...