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Readers who smiled over Author Linklater's Juan in America (TIME, March 4, 1931), might expect another picaresque comedy from him, but The Men of Ness is as different from his first book as a Soglow cartoon from a Rivera fresco. Serious this time, Author Linklater has written a carefully primitive, saga-like chronicle about the Vikings who once harried and inhabited his native Orkney...
...John's party has the city in its bag but only a slim margin of control on the Board of Aldermen, whose president, Harrie Satchells, is after the mayoralty. The campaign is a humdinger, nip & tuck all the way. When Satchells at one meeting produces an inflated rubber cartoon of Holtsapple and lets the air out as he asks it embarrassing questions, he is one up. Jolly John (aping Big Bill Thompson's famed performances with jackasses et al.) evens things up by leading out a pig, addressing it as Harrie. By an ingenious scheme for keeping...
...motors. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. Most of Kong's fights were photographed in miniature, some of them in "stop-motion"-using models of which the positions are minutely changed after each exposure, like the drawings in an animated cartoon...
...their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself.' I feel there must be something the matter with...
...prime pounders: Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram and Harold Morton Talburt of the Washington News. Mr. Kirby, scholarly and artistic, has a distaste for the Opper type of cartoon with its dialog in balloons. He was the pride of the old New York World. He and Talburt were both active in the 1928 campaign and the slogans of that fight echo through their work this year (see Kirby...