Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heart on special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear in 22 U. S. daily papers, nine Sunday papers through the McNaught Syndicate. Herman, created in Wally's own image, will soon find himself in the army meeting his old comrades, among them Ross, as a supply sergeant, and Woollcott, as a medical...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Cartoonist E. C. Segar, who created the comic strip character, "Popeye the Sailor", was near death tonight as a result of a liver ailment...
Missouri Legend (by Elizabeth B. Ginty; produced by Guthrie McClintic in association with Max Gordon), half a clowning comic strip, half a romantic daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
...jitterbugs will like Garden of the Moon remains to be seen, but normal cinemaddicts probably will not. A morbidly cheerful little study of the rages induced in a café proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying in order to persuade the bandleader hero (John Payne) to renew his contract. Best song: Love Is Where You Find...
...Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial...