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Untrue is the longstanding legend of the Star office that a cub reporter of 15 years ago was fired when he revealed a snake tattooed on his arm.* But it is true and well-remembered that last year a syndicated comic strip was doctored by the Times to transform a tiny snake into a toad (TIME...
Many a shrewd, bitter, searching re-mark has been made about war behind war's back. Author Deval's remarks, no less bitter than most young soldiers' reminiscences, are cloaked in comic, Chaplinesque, sometimes clownish guise. Author Deval, short-sighted and unfit for fighting, spent most of the War in the Service of Supplies, saw little action at the front. Even at that, three of his comrades were killed by a shell within 50 yards of him; he himself was gassed...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...
Phil Baker plays snatches on a glittering accordion and bandies old gags and a very few new ones with his fat comic in an upper box. Aileen Stanley croons sundry ballads in the ultra-modulated, effortless manner. Most talented member of the troupe is Wesley Pierce, whose name does not appear in upper case type with the other headliners, but who thoroughly ingratiates himself with audiences by making difficult feats of acrobatic dancing look easy, by singing inane songs pleasingly, by looking cheerfully funny. There are also 44 personable chorus girls, of whom more is to be seen than...
Rarely does a magazine cartoonist undertake the routine of drawing comic strips for newspapers. Outstanding of the new artists who have succeeded as comic strippers are Percy Crosby ("Skippy") and Gluyas Williams ("Suburban Heights" et al.). Artists whose newspaper comics have fallen short of their magazine popularity include John Held, Jr. ("Margy"), Ellison Hoover ("Outlines of Oscar"), Jefferson Machamer ("Petting Patty...