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BY GARY MOFFATT
Although I avoid sports like the plague, I have often found Tank McNamara highly amusing, Recently, a number of newspapers removed Tank from their comics page and put him in the sports section instead, This move seems to me highly questionable; it means that in order to read the stripI have to look over page after page of newsprint which otherwise I wouldn't even bother to open in order to find where the strip has been placed, It is legitimate to use comic strips to sell papers (God knows there's little enough else in them that is worth reading these days), but surely the reader is entitled to the convenience of finding them in one place once he's bought the paper.
The Globe and Mail is putting the Outcasts on a news page and Cathy in the women's section; at this rate they'll soon have Gasoline Alley with the car ads and Mary Worth on the weddings page, since she seems to be one of the dwindling number who still believes in them, There is historical precedent for all this inasmuch as the first daily strip, Augustus Mutt, concerned sports and appeared on the sports page of the San Francisco Chronicle, However, Mutt's interests broadened somewhat after Jeff joined him, and in the intervening years the comics have gathered sufficient interest to merit their own place.
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Usually film comedies by people whose primary success was on radio were pretty bad, and Fred Allen was no exception to this rule, However, I recently saw an old Allen film on television which I felt worthy of being shown much more often than it is, Entitled "It's In The Bag," it was based on the familiar Russian story about the impoverished entrepreneur (in this case, a flea circus operator) who gives away a number of inherited chairs only to discover that a valuable fortune was hidden in one of them.
There have been other film versions, the most recent featuring Ron Moody. The screenplay for “It's In The Bag" was co-authored by Allen and Morrie Ryskind, who also collaborated on many of the best Marx Brothers films, and makes the most of Allen's droll wit. The plot makes room for a variety of cameos by Allen's contemporaries, some radio-oriented such as his typical interview with Mrs, Nussbaum and slanging match with Jack Benny, others more unusual such as his beer hall quartet with Rudy Vallee, Don Ameche and Victor Moore, Then there's Robert Benchley explaining a Rube Goldberg mousetrap, Jerry Colonna as a psychiatrist swatting imaginary tsetse flies, William Bendix as an inept gangster and Sidney Toler as an obnoxious cop, the complete antithesis of Charlie Chan, The film certainly has as much to offer as the frequently shown Marx Brothers or W.C. Fields comedies, and should be around more often than it is.
CAPTAIN GEORGE'S PENNY DREADFUL, a weekly review established in 1968, is published by the Vast Whizzbang Organization, 594 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario.