Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After trying six months of voluntary self-censorship of comic books by the publishers themselves. New York state decided that self-censorship is not enough. Last week Governor Averell Harriman signed into law a bill making it a crime (maximum penalty: $500 fine, one year in prison) to sell "obscene and objectionable comics" to minors, or to use such words as "crime, sex, horror, terror" in comic-book titles. The protests of comic-book publishers were joined by book and newspaper publishers; they pointed out that the wording of the law was subject to loose interpretation as to what...
...reasonably macabre farce, which can't help bringing Arsenic and Old Lace to mind, The Honeys has its fine wacky moments and amusing passages-whether bright remarks, clever pantomime, comic props, a funny murder scene, skillful acting or Ben Edwards' sets. If, for all that, there are a good many lulls, it is perhaps because the play is happier in its details than in its fundamental design. The Honeys is fairly safe playing murder for laughs because its victims are so loathsome. But Arsenic and Old Lace could play safer-and be much funnier-because its murderers were...
...more apparent upon a re-viewing. Colgate Salsbury's Treasure Island scene, for example, is a high point of the first act. Barbara Forester as Red Riding Hood is a far cry from Mona Lisa, and a good thing too. Miss Forester is a muggy, engaging comedienne. Sheila Tobais' comic talents also struck me more last evening, especially in the opera parody. As for Clare Scott, were the HDC not egalitarian and had Peabody Playhouse a marquee, her name would be at the top, she is certainly the star...
gttf 1 abounds with humorous pen and ink sketches. In this particular it departs somewhat from its slightly older fraters, who rely only on the stanza arrangement of their verses to provide comic relief. I think it is enough to say that the primitivistic, etc., themes pervade these drawings, and to conclude from them that gttf 1 has not yet reached that pinnacle of sound literary achievement from which it may return to the cradle and proceed to make pictures of words...
With all of London's twelve daily and ten Sunday papers strikebound for the third week, Britons read everything from the High-way Code to almanacs and comic books. Copies of such provincial papers as the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post got premium prices. To help tell of Churchill's resignation (see FOREIGN NEWS), biggest British story of the year, thousands of copies of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Des Moines Register and even Long Island's Newsday were flown to London...