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...artist to see the lyrical in the prosaic is comprehensible, and perhaps the essence of his trade-but the other way around? Moreau is a lovely woman, not a sloe-eyed Orphan Annie advertising 50 cigars to the 12th century. Please, next time find someone who can draw...
Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...
...Times Herald that irresponsible propaganda is being placed in the mouth of one of America's best known fictional characters," said that paper in a Page One editorial. "This newspaper, recipient of medical writing honors for its carefully researched series on emotionally disturbed persons, does not agree with Orphan Annie." But the Times Herald let Annie have her say: "In the belief that even misguided Orphan Annies are entitled to a viewpoint without censorship, this newspaper will reluctantly continue the objectionable episode...
...Orphan Annie's creator, Harold Gray, was unbothered: "I'm not crusading. I'm doing a script. I know some editors are writing editorials saying it couldn't happen in their states. But it can be done. The main thing is that I had to get Daddy Warbucks into a jam. This is a believable...
...rich, unstable matron, Barbara finds ample cause for panic. She dreams pleasant dreams about an ardent young man, but wakes to a nightmare life with an insanely jealous husband who has no eyeballs, like Orphan Annie. His blindness encourages him to visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front...