Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanciful world of comic strips, Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher have at least one very real sentiment in common. They despise each other. On public platforms and to newspaper editors all over the U.S.. Fisher has long charged that Capp is a purveyor of pornography. To back up his charge, Fisher has carted about huge reproductions of Capp's cartoons with the supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly...
Recognizable Photostats. Then station WHDH's lawyers introduced the report of the 1951 New York State Joint Legislative Committee on comics. In the record were eight pages of photostats of Capp cartoons under the heading: "Sexually suggestive cartoons and in some instances semihidden pornography." Capp had no trouble recognizing the photostats as the same ones Fisher has been passing around. Exploded Capp: "These are forgeries . . . We conducted an investigation of the source of the forgeries. We are in the last stage of finding the forger." Furthermore, the exhibits were not taken from his newspaper strip, but from comic books...
...James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, and Kirk Douglas, take up most of the space in the submarine. But the actors become submerged in the Nautilus' travels and never seem to matter much in the story. Lorre, as the scientist's apprentice, is surpassed in his bid to provide comic relief by a very talented seal named Ezzy. Unhampered by dialogue, the seal, in fact, puts on the film's best performance, Colorful explosion, an occasional good scene with Mason playing the organ in his captain's quarters, and a ludicrous attack on the Nautilus by New Guinea cannibals also...
...that shakily-constructed set often termed the National scene, one of Harvard's foremost sons was chosen for a comic role last spring. Sam Sears trucked down to Washington as an impartial counsel in the McCarthy hearings. Until the authorities questioned the casting and dropped his opinion, Cambridge was anticipating quite a performance. As it turned out, the Show went on and was high comedy; but for real farce, Sam was our choice in the part...
Perhaps The Wayward Saint might best be described in terms of its theatrical ancestry. Certainly author Paul Vincent Carroll owes something to the Faust legend, since his comic-fantasy is based on the time-worn duel between heaven and hell for another eligible soul. The owner of the soul, however, is a simple Irish priest, Cannon Daniel McCooey, whose origins could no doubt be traced to Going...