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...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
...Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...
...only in the peculiar perversion of the English language that "Leffing Ges" is comparable to "Nize Baby", but even in the type of stories told. For example, in this latest work we again meet "De Boston Tea Potty", "Crissty Colombiss" and the perpetual menace of "Leetle Rad Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage...
Died. Georgia O'Ramey, 41, musical comedy funnywoman, (The Velvet Lady, No No Nanette etc.); two hours before the opening performance of Nize Girl, in which she had a leading role; of heart disease ; in New Haven...
DUNT ESK-Milt Gross-Doran ($2). -Mr. Feitlebaum-Mm- Oohoo, nize baby"oohoooo"Hm -Look from henimals a book! So geeve in de book a look so tell poppa wot it stends dere de henimal-ah-ah "Baby-Squshlzzrrlx!!! &Mr. Feitlebaum-Yi yi yi!! A HAPE he spuck! A Hape!! Yi yi -geeve a look de book, momma- look de peecture!! Is a hape, no?? So I say, 'Baby, dollink, wot's dees??' So he saz me, 'A hape!' Look it stends: 'Playe stends for hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan...