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Small Cuba held up the whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
...studied his people, listened to their speech, and remembered what he has seen and heard. His minor characters, crotchety or crabbed, leave a more memorable impression than the more generally typical protagonists. The two figures of Pat and Leo, Dickensian country carpenters wandering inseparably through the story, are like Mutt & Jeff come true...
...characters, the conventional father, mother, small son & daughter, Pekinese pup; his theme, the conventional burlesque of U. S. middleclass home life. Sample episode: Mrs. Smythe insists upon buying Pekinese, to utter disgust of Mr. Smythe who snorts, "I don't know what you can see in that mutt." Mrs. Smythe, in desperation, goes to bed. Later, Tootums (the Pekinese) awakes and sneezes. Unable to arouse his wife, Smythe arises, grudgingly walks the floor with Tootums, finally melts, talks baby-talk to Tootums, nurses it back to sleep. Whereupon Mrs. Smythe, awake, triumphantly mocks her husband...
...overwhelming appeal of this pair, whose daily mail is prodigious, whose popularity unquestionably exceeds that of any other radio performers, consists chiefly in their blending of simple narrative interest with skillful Negro characterization. People who for years have followed the fortunes of Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are naturally agog to discover what will happen to Amos 'n' Andy in their next radio installment. People who have roared mightily at Moran & Mack and the late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe...
Cartoonist Bud Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) found many a stray dog last year on his newly-purchased Carmel, N. Y., estate. He ordered his Negro butler, James Bell, to get rid of them. This Butler Bell did, darkly, until only one dog was left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more...