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...motorist, onetime King of the Highway, looked more like a funny-cartoon pedestrian each week. A great many Eastern gas tanks were dry, and hell had seen no furies like the motorists who did not have enough gas left to drive around to a service station for gas that was not there...
...Steel's eighth cinemappearance since the movies muscled in on his vast newspaper-magazine-radio audience (estimate: 50,000,000) last September. The picture also highlights a new U.S. cinema fashion: some 20,000.000 Supermaniacs can hardly wait for Superman's ten-minute, one-reel cartoon to appear once a month in more than 7,000 U.S. movie houses...
Artistically, Superman shorts are the movie cartoon at its worst. Superman looks and acts like a wooden puppet. So do all his playmates. There is little that his creators-the old Fleischer Studios (now Famous Studios, Inc.) at Miami, Fla.-can do to improve their hero-even King Disney can't animate human beings satisfactorily. But they did manage to give him a new voice recently. His old one wasn't manly enough. Now it booms...
Little Japs are infiltrating U.S. factories, beaming and slavering with wicked satisfaction but doing no good to Japan. They are all versions of one & the same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrap. "Bust tool make soooo happy, thank you," is the main theme of his left-handed sentiments...
Allowed to mail the better-behaved issue of May 23. Editor Asher wrote of Lasswell: "This was a peculiar bird. This fellow who had more college degrees than Heintz has pickles, had formulated what he called a chart. . . . Well, the blamed chart looked to me like a Cartoon or one of the inventions of Professor Whatasnozzle in the Sunday comics...