Word: milt
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...
...Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...
...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
...above Milt Grossian verses were to be seen issuing out of the mouth of a farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise of Cartoonist Johnstone, that there are now some 90,000 Jewish farmers in the U. S. as against some 1,000 when the Agricultural...