Word: katrinka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creator of such familiar personalities as The Toonerville Skipper, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less familiar but equally profitable creation of Cartoonist Fox known as Reynard Corp...
...frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because she considered the part of nightmare-haunted Klytemnestra too strenuous...
...Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That evening at the Pelham Country Club, Cartoonist Fox was guest of honor at a dinner. Next day his trolley was replaced by a shiny new omnibus...