Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Hugh ("Woo-Woo") Herbert, 60, flutter-fingered cinema comic; by Rose Herbert, 56, onetime vaudeville actress; after 28 years of marriage, no children; in Fort Worth...
...handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff, and has bought Parade for his Sunday supplement. He also tripped up the Sun-Telegraph by taking away some of its best comic strips: Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Terry (the PG, which runs them daily, snagged the Sunday rights...
...kind of humorist who will offer to tell you "the latest on Margaret O'Brien" or "the TRUTH about Dame May Whitty," might be the person the new Yale Record was written for. It is an unsuccessful parody on the comic book which never begins to realize its possibilities...
...this period, two decisive events occurred in Dr. Doyle's life. The first followed his break with the Catholic Church, which had left him shaken and worried. One day, when he was wondering whether or not he should read Leigh Hunt on the comic dramatists of the Restoration (the Restoration was sometimes bawdy), he went to a séance. Unasked, the medium "received" and passed on to Doyle a "spirit-message": "Tell him not to read Leigh Hunt's book." Doyle was thunderstruck...
...Films, Harvard's undergraduate Hollywood, finished shooting its first production a week ago. Now, after slashing away at over 8000 feet of uncut film, the outfit has 70 minutes worth of comic fantasy, a true "Touch of the Times," ready for sheak preview Wednesday...