Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where...
Most in evidence and least in the way is Comic Milton Berle (Earl Carroll's Vanities, See My Lawyer), whose patter is sometimes funny, though his aversion to new jokes is hardly an asset. The screen's best deadpan butler, Arthur Treacher, buttles his way through a succession of poor skits. With finely formed, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey, the Follies does a little girl-glorifying, but in general the show lacks oomph as well...
...London Daily Mirror, splashy, successful tabloid (circulation: 1,850,000, England's second largest), thrives partly because it is sexy. Its most popular comic strip "Jane," features shapely ladies an inch nearer naked than U.S. comic artists dare draw: the straight news the Mirror prints is generously laved in sob sisters' gravy. (One recent article announced that motherhood is the "Cinderella of the Professions," and urged all young wives to bear at least four children...
...transferred to the Special Services Division and sent first to New York (where he married), then to England in June 1942, to do odd jobs of art for the Army and to serve as photographer-artist for the Army's weekly, Yank. For Yank he turned out occasional comic strips called "G.I. Joe" until he got his lieutenancy (commissioned officers cannot be members of Yank's staff). But Dave Breger's best-known creation is the daily panel called Private Breger...
Recently in London Breger was introduced to Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, British cartoonist, whose Breger-like sense of simple humor made "Old Bill," a fat, walrus-mustached old British soldier, the most popular comic character of the last war.* Joked Breger to Bairnsfather: "I always wanted to be known as the Bairnsfather of this war. Now I hope you'll be known as the Breger of the last...