Word: katzenjammerism
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Four or five years ago Joe Pasternak electrified the movie-going world with a little girl who had a beautiful voice and a contagious smile. Her name was Deanna Durbin. Today Joe Pasternak has pulled the same trick with pleasant, but not electrifying, results. The name of his find is...
...classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive sophistication, outlandish imagination, impulsiveness, sly satire...
It was in 1887 that Hearst took over his father's San Francisco Examiner, published Casey at the Bat. Nine years later he was in Manhattan, buying a stable of Pulitzer writers for his Journal, whooping it up for Bryan and the Cubans. A few months before Richard Harding...
There is a large sprinkling of foreign works, principally from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Russia. A first edition is shown of "Max und Moritz," which is the ancestor of the modern comic strip and which has its modern counterpart in the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids...
Bemelmans was a Bavarian problem child. When he failed to pass the first grade of a school for dunces he was sent to the Tyrol to work in the inn of his prosperous Uncle Hans, whom his grandfather, a big brewer, called the "other Lump." The first Lump was Bemelmans...