Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic John Mason Brown recently called comic books "the marijuana of the nursery." Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ranked them among the chief "contributing causes of juvenile delinquency." Disgusted by the sex, violence and crime they were peddling, druggists in South Bend refused last week to sell comic books in their stores...
...Jinx Clark; Jazz Skater Rudy Richards, who jitterbugs remarkably, but with the slight-and highly welcome-touch of restraint that ice and skates impose. Even more rewarding are two such Center standbys as Skippy Baxter, who can skate both very fast and fancy, and Freddie Trenkler, for whose great comic shenanigans familiarity only breeds admiration...
Astaire has done finer dancing; but if he were dancing with both feet tied behind him, he could probably still give distinction to a show. As in The Pirate, Miss Garland does a comic tramp dance, with teeth blacked out. She is very cute at this but, after all, she has other talents; it will be a pity if she gets typed as a hobo. Now & then the picture has real gaiety and flow. More often, it just ambles along. Considering its assets, it is by no means as good as it ought to be. But, considering the hot weather...
...content with 23 publications (and three comic books besides), Ford is planning another (Ford Truck Times) with a starting circulation of 2,000,000. Hollywood is getting into the act with one called Close-Up. But Selznick Studio, its publisher, sees no reason to give away what it can sell. In several hundred movie houses and at newsstands, fans last week were forking over a quarter for a copy of Close-Up filled with little more than publicity puffs for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Before his death (TIME, May 10), radio's Tom (Breakfast in Hollywood) Breneman...
...date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...