Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigdome & Tremblechin. Because his comic, faintly tragic drawings show situations that are always happening to his readers, Hatlo at 55 has become one of the best-known cartoonists in the U.S. His two-panel cartoons are populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
Despite their smaller membership and factional squabbles, the Young Democrats managed to turn out more canvassers than the HYRC--almost fifteen a night. Besides polling Cambridge citizens on their Presidential choice, the Democrats have huckstered a "Stevenson Comic Book". Canvassing interest in the HLU started slowly, but zoomed after the story got around that one Boston lady locked an HLU canvasser in her room and tried to seduce...
...magnificent music-hall scene, in which Chaplin plays a left-handed violinist and stony-faced Buster Keaton an impossibly nearsighted pianist, the two greatest comedians of the silent screen make Limelight glow with a sure sense of pantomime-timing, as crisply clean and uncluttered a masterpiece of comic craft as the screen is ever likely...
Capp writes and draws the comic strip "Li'l Abner" and the continuity for the "Abbie 'n Slats" strip. He is a director of the Boston Summer Theatre...