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...Grease Paint. Like millions of boys who wanted to be cartoonists when they'grew up, Milt Caniff never missed a day of Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...
...George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between kisses to become one of the first men in history to put love on a paying basis. Beginning with their escape from prison when they are enlisted to pose for a fresco of St. George and the Dragon, the Mutt and Jeff team adroitly carries the plot through the various sequences to its culmination in an cerie death struggle over money...
This week's column is dedicated to antiquity. In line with this it should be mentioned that a number of new and improved records have been cut by the revitalized Kid Ory Band with Omer Simcon and Papa Mutt Carey still effectively holding back father time...
Crescent's 1,500 pressings of two Kid Ory discs (Creole Song; South, Get Out of Here; Blues for Jimmy) were sold out soon after the release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
...hunt has been one of the quietest and best-organized in history. Its headquarters is a big, bemapped office in the Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more...