Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time daily newspapers have been magazines, running largely, though, to the light and comic type. We are going to put more weight and bulk into the Courier-Journal in the belief that America has passed her adolescence, and readers are willing now to learn the facts of life...
HAMLET certainly did have an uncle. And it is not Claudius (as he is called in that "perverted" form of Hamlet's story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns out to be none other than the stock Cabell hero, although figuring in a highly exotic environment. One would say, offhand, that the world of the Norse sagas is the last place to look for one of Mr. Cabell's latter-day Jurgens: middle-aged, disillusioned-but-invincibly-romantic, garrulous...
...dates and titles are: March 7, "lbsen and His Influence;" March 14, "The Perfect Shavian--G.B.S.;" March 21, "Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...
Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition. The Superman Club has 100,000 members, including Eric & Jean LaGuardia, Spanky McFarland (Our Gang Comedies), a La Follette, a Du Pont, eleven middies from Annapolis, 16 students at Hiram (Ohio) College. In the works...
...Little Chickadee (Universal) is an inspired coupling of the suggestive art of America's leading mental stripteaser (Mae West) with the comic talents of one of the funniest men on earth (W. C. Fields). Together they make a comedy which is more hilarious than its grab-bag plot about a fancy lady, whose efforts to roll a penniless hair-oil salesman are insufficiently supported by good gags, has any right to be. It also suffers less than usual from the tendency of Comedienne West (who yearns to play Catherine the Great) to take herself too seriously...