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...gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci, Aïda, Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana-to audiences which were 85% grownup. Since the autumn of 1939 the troupe has toured 100,000 miles...
...peopled by large, self-confident beings who seem to do what they please but will not let children do what they please. If children brood on this situation too much, or if the situation gets them down, they can develop obsessions, phobias, complexes, neuroses as black-fledged as any grownup's. In general, the symptoms are abnormal behavior-tantrums, lethargy, refusal to eat, overeating, wetting their beds "when they are old enough to know better...
Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25? for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts...
...cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual disenchantment that make most Hollywood pictures by comparison seem, for better or for worse, not quite grownup...
Scarcely more than a year ago Superman was just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...