Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knights of Song (by Glendon Allvine; produced by Laurence Schwab) is a musical show about the most famous of musical showmen, Gilbert & Sullivan. Besides providing a chance to go to town with their music, a play about them has comic and dramatic opportunities: Sullivan's long love affair with married, U. S.-born Cynthia Bradley; the violent wrangling between the two collaborators, who could not work peaceably together nor successfully apart; Queen Victoria's affection for genial, diplomatic Sullivan (John Moore), whom she knighted in 1883; her aversion to jealous, crusty Gilbert (Nigel Bruce), whom it was left...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...
Last August, onetime Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, now chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute because it was "without social consciousness or soul"; later he amplified his charges, said he found "something comic about a group which spends great sums to advertise the virtue of moderation and then breaks the backs of its representatives to make them meet impossible sales quotas...
...married couples in an effort to determine statistically how happy they are, what kind of personalities and opinions they have, how they have been brought up. These investigators then calculate correlations between particular personality traits and happiness. One of their most notable pronouncements is that people who like comic strips are happy in marriage more often than those who do not. From a number of items such as this, psychologists make a test with which to rate an individual's or a couple's chance for happiness...
Died. John Joseph Boylan, 70, Tammanyite, for 16 years U. S. Representative of the docks, warehouses, clothing factories, theatrical lodging houses on the west side of midtown Manhattan; who conducted an unsuccessful one-man campaign to brighten the Congressional Record by headlines, cartoons and comic strips; after long illness; in Manhattan...