Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1936 — Page 13

WILLIAM STARTED THESE TOOT:

Mary Mixup, Freckles and Other Strip Characters

Held Puck's

Counterparts

‘Midsummer Night's Dream,’ Opening for Popular-Price Run Here Friday, Gives New Angle to School Course in Shakespeare, Reviewer Says.

BY JOE COLLIER Mostly, Shakespeare has meant to me English 2A, Mon-

days, Wednesdays and Fridays, after which school was over

for the day.

Now I find that Shakespeare invented the idea, or the general scheme of the modern comic strip, and that Little Mary Mixup, Freckles and the Katzenjammer Kids, etc., are really “owned” by the English bard and operated by various

and sundry feature syndicates.

This all has been said before in connection with “Midsummer Night's Dream,” but then, so has the film been here

before. This time, however, it is to be at “popular prices,” as they say, at the Apollo beginning Friday.

It is the notion of Dr. Rich-|

ard Burton, for 27 years head of the University of Minnesota English department (Hollywood reports) that if one were to go up to any one of the juvenile comic characters and say: “And whose little fiend incarnate ~ are you?” the character would reply, right off the bat: “Shakespeare's.”

Here's How It's Figured

Here's how he figures it. Puck, whose part is taken by Mickey Rooney, one of the most talented. juveniles of the screen, was the scapegoat for the English housewife during the period when people believed in the omnipresence and unpredictability of fairies. Puck took an oral beating, he thinks, from every householder who found little things gone wrong, for evils that beset them fro time to time. He was not blamed for indefinite and unadulterated ‘bad luck.” For instance: “4The sturdy yoeman,” home from the village on a Saturday night was greeted by no angry spouse, roll-ing-pin in hand, when he tardily wended his weaving way up the stairs. “late! Certainly he was late. And who wouldn't be when an honest fellow, minding his own business and hurrying home to his wife and bairns, was lured into the woods by a call for help and chased hither and yon by flashing lights and untraceable voices.” | But One Answer The answer was “Puck.” One passage of the play tells the whole story of Puck, Dr. Burton says, Puck is asked: “You are that shrewd and knavish eprite called Robin Goodfellow; are rot you he that frightens the maidens of the villagery?” And Puck replies: “Thou speak’st aright.

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“I am that merry wanderer of the night.” Peter Pan, Dr. Burton is reported to have said, surely must be attributed to him. And so must, the educator believes, the comic strips: “All fairies,” he said, “have similar characteristics. There is always the Fairy Queen who gets into difficulty with her lord and master because of her affection for human beings. There are always amours between the mortals and the swellers of the night to the great disadvantage of the mortals. “And always there is Puck, willing servaht of the Fairy King—a mischievous practical joker, ever sounding his weird laugh at the foibles and follies of earthbound and spirit creatures alike.”

Gains Seven Pounds, Can't Wear Dresses

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8.—Pity poor Pat Patterson.: During her recent trip to France with her husband, Charles Boyer, Pat went on a shop-

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gowns, By the time she arrived home, however, she had gained severl pounds—and couldn't wear one of the: dresses. Now she doesn’t know whether to reduce ‘or have the gowns altered.

Wanger Preparing

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Times Special HOLLYWOOD, ' Oct. 8—Walter Wanger is now making elaborate preparations for his second Technicolor pice, “Vogues of 1937.”

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Times Special . HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8.—It looks as though Gertrude Michael just isn’t meant to make that picture in England. After working day and night to finish her current assignment at RKO, she dashed to the airport and boarded a plane just as it was about to take off. Ten minutes later, when high in the air, she discovered that she was on the wrong ‘plane and was headed for San Diego instead of New York. So she had to fly clear to the southern California city, return on the next ship and take a later plane to New York. According to the schedule, she was due to arrive in

Normandie. En route across the country, however, she was stricken with toxic poisoning. So as soon as she arrived in New York, she had to go immediately to a hotel where she will be confined to her bed for 10 days.

Posing for still pictures opened He door of the moving picture dios for heautiful Vida Ann Borg, Boston model, whose joy at

signing a motion picture contract is told in that beaming smile.

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