Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army spokesman Lt, Col. Robert D. Burhans said 99 per cent of reports on the comic book were favorable. "It went over very well in the Midwest, and we had some very nice comments from the South...
...Army is standing squarely behind its own version of that popular American institution, the comic book...
...answer to criticism of a comic book used for recruiting students for the R.O.T.C., the Army said this week that the books had done a lot in raising enrollments above the normal percentages even though college enrollment went down...
...surest reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...
...Wednesday (RKO Radio], starring Harold Lloyd, one of the great comedians of silent pictures, is a curious mixture of high comic invention and low humor. Filmed five years ago by Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges under the title The Sin of Harold Diddle-bock, it contains a fuzzy exposition of Writer-Director Sturges' economic philosophy ("This is a picture against security. It shows that trouble sharpens the wit and security dulls it"). As currently released by RKO's Howard Hughes, who ended a brief partnership with Sturges in 1946, Mad Wednesday has suffered some...