Word: comics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half that stayed home ought to make the trip while it still can. Astaire and Rogers assure any musical of success. When you add to them the comic talents of Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick and the music of Irving Berlin ("top Hat," "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught In the Rain," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek") it's like insuring the Rock of Gilbraltar against erosion...
Although to American soldiers' eyes the nervous, myopic little man with his bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children...
...year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples") or ape a romantic singer ("Dance...
Except for Chic Young's Blondie and Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily...
...Berle. Through the years, hard-working Comic Berle drove himself so overbearingly to fulfill his destiny that many a bitter show-business colleague came to regard him as a gag-stealing braggart. Now, having conquered at last, Milton seems to be living down his bad reputation. Success agrees with him. Says George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect...