Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's press lords, like their millions of readers, spend more time over their comic strips than over their editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland...
Idler has chosen for its fall offering a play that combines the virtues of novelty and freshness with those of genuinely comic writing and stage-ability. And realizing the limitations of its own theater and financial resources, the Radcliffe group has presented it with indisputable attractiveness...
...Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
Reader Killinger [TIME, Oct. 28] seems to object to your article about Lower Slobbovia [TIME, Oct. 7], and classes the comic strip which inspired it as "trash," along with all the others...
...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...