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...comic strips "Popeye the Sailor" and "Mickey Mouse" (Italian name: "Topolino"); in Italy. Agency: the Ministry of Popular Culture. Reason: they do not contribute to "exaltation of the imperial, Fascist and Mussolinian tone in which we live." Italian editors, spurred by the new Fascist drive for "racism," have also been inking over the hair of blond U. S. heroes like Flash Gordon and Joe Palooka...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...
Youth Takes a Fling (Universal) is a mildly pleasant comedy about the Kansas youth (Joel McCrea) who thinks he wants to be a sailor and the New York salesgirl (Andrea Leeds) who knows he doesn...
...their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Cartoonist E. C. Segar, who created the comic strip character, "Popeye the Sailor", was near death tonight as a result of a liver ailment...