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Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable...
Last week Daddy Warbucks was on trial "for conspiracy to defraud" (see cut).
Clucked Warbucks' friends: "He's given millions to help poor people like me. . . . He paid the mortgage on my home. . . . What a farce! I'll bet half the jury aren't even sure what they're trying him for."
What made Daddy Warbucks' fight for his good name newsworthy last week was the fact that Cartoonist Gray and his editors were receiving countless letters from excited readers throughout the land, asking if the strip was supposed to be a sympathetic portrayal of the case of Samuel Insull. Two...
In the other feature, "Little Orphan Annie," the ordinarily hard-to-bear Mitzi Green is absolutely insufferable. Those who follow the comic strip assidously will be grievously disappointed to see Sandy a German shepherd and Daddy Warbucks an insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a...