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Annually the Macy's stages this grotesque parade to inveigle children and parents into its Christmas Toy Department. If a balloon is found the finder who sends it back gets a $50 prize. Last week's balloons, including a 168-ft. Krazy Kat-faced dragon, a 30-ft whale, went toward the Atlantic Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Medalist | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...been a headliner in vaudeville since 1910. She sang at Reisenvveber's in Manhattan, where a dining room was called The Sophie Tucker Room. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York made friends with her when she sang at the Kit Kat Club in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...spite of fatigue, Lewis continued his talk by telling of some Oxford students who came to hear him play at the Kit Kat Club in London. They had seen him in a play then running, and asked him to play a certain tune they had liked. "Why Do You Treat Me That Way?" was its name, they said. "After some little mental torture", Lewis said, "I gave up, when suddenly it occurred to me that the tune in question was 'How Can You Do Me Like You Do?' And that was my best impression of typical English humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS IN THE DAY'S NEWS | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

Public-spirited citizens starved their cats. Municipal officials starved cats in the village pounds ?and an army of ravenous felines was released upon Mousedom. To no avail. Krazy Kat himself (or herself)** could have been no more ineffectual. Dick Whittington's cat, who rid an African kingdom of rats at one fell swoop, might have prevailed, but not the cats of Kern County. Rocking with glee, the newsgatherers told stories about cowardly cats fleeing to cover, proud cats ignoring such easy prey, big-hearted cats adopting families of mice. The ever-colorful New York World carried a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tabby Manna | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Most popular U. S. comic strip character, widely syndicated creation of Cartoonist George Herriman. At his partner-in-comedy, Krazy Kat, he throws hundreds of black ink bricks annually, his aim being uncanny accuracy. As a brick hits Krazy Kat, Ignatz often cries, "Phooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mice | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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