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Oldsters remember Winsor McCay less for his editorial drawings than for "Little Nemo," whose Adventures in Slumberland were a high spot of Sunday comic supplements 25 years ago. Nemo was a sweet-faced little boy supposedly inspired by Artist McCay's son Robert Winsor. He moved through a fabulous world of clouds and seas and palaces, drawn in delicate color. His companions, natives of Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass...
...Nemo disappeared from the comic sections in 1913. This week he appears again in Manhattan and Chicago Hearstpapers, drawn by Son Robert Winsor McCay. At 38, R. Winsor McCay looks much less like the Nemo for which he was a model than like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent...
...Oldtime Nemo-lovers, however, will miss the gentle conception of Slumberland. Instead of giving Nemo's adventures the honest simplicity of a child's dreams, Winsor Jr. has compromised with the "Buck Rogers" school of Jules Verne adventure. Thus the new series has Nemo accidentally shot sky-high from a circus cannon, takes him toward "another planet" where propeller-driven men called "gyro-scouts" broadcast news of his approach from their radio helmets. Flip & Impie fly out to meet him in an airplane...
...than it does the minds of State Department savants, and recognize as graciously as possible any government howsoever radical that is established. Such an attitude would have a salutary effect that would make the settlement of the fundamental problem of the fate of foreign capital in Cuba immeasurably easier. NEMO...
...this force for their benefit as they might do if they possessed sufficient foresight, they are merely exhausting themselves in battling the inevitable. When a class loses the power of adapting itself to a changing environment it will disappear just as surely as did the dinosaurs of another world. NEMO...