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...publisher of the New York Daily News, last week gave a beautiful performance of buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth 34¾ in., the Lonergan trial 55 in. The entire Pacific...
...Here, Private Hargrove (M.G.M.) is war training expurgated by comedy. The picture dubs the title of 1942's bestselling, cubbish comedy of barracks life onto a swatch of slightly whimsical photographed cartoons. Typical cartoon: a soldier, agonizingly wriggling forward under barbed wire and live ammunition, exclaims: "My, this is exciting...
...campaign, accumulates neither meaning nor suspense. Nor can it hold up as straight reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...
...Mouse. The grandiose works were concerned with the bigness-and the grossness-of man. A different, delicately hilarious Dore talent found expression in his cartoon history of Holy Russia with its Lilliputian kings and knights...
...towards the climax of the proceedings, Art dropped into an audible snooze. When his horrified co-defendants awoke him he reached for a pencil, drew his classical cartoon of contempt of court (see cut) which he captioned "Art Young on trial for his life." After the case had been dropped, the prosecuting attorney (who had had to admit that "everybody likes Art Young") bid for the picture...