Word: comics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applaud any new opera. For the occasion the delighted composer had been granted leave of absence from the California State Junior College where he teaches dramatics. His curtain calls sent thrills down his spine. He has written nine operas and the only other one to be produced was a comic thing called The Farmerettes, put on by the Hollywood High School in 1933. On the great Metropolitan stage last week he was presented with a medal-from an American Opera Society in Chicago...
...Kindergarten and first-grade pupils, unable to read, are started on comic strips, lured on by such teasers as "Wouldn't you like to read the funnies' yourself without waiting for some one to read...
...Little Springtime In Your Heart," "Over My Shoulder Goes Care," "Dancing on the Ceiling") sound infinitely better than their titles. Miss Matthews sings and dances to them as gracefully as they deserve. The only really weak spots in Evergreen are its happily infrequent efforts to be comic. Sample: The heroine to her scapegrace father: "Do you mind if I open the window?" His reply: "No, but don't give...
Because the Swiss for a long time have been professional neutrals, innkeepers, paid hosts to congresses of tourists, invalids and impotent statesmen, a literary tradition has sprung up that they are a race of small-minded, closefisted, petty burghers, slightly comic but mostly dull." In Via Mala Swiss Author John Knittel goes a long way toward exploding this commercialized tradition, shows that the Swiss, like other people, are human, passionate, beleaguered by all the human vices and virtues. A humane melodrama. Via Mala is written on the socially dangerous and apparently un-Swiss-like theme that...
...earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...