Showing posts with label Toby Wing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toby Wing. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Toby Townly Story In DICK TRACY Pt.2








The Dicky Tracy story with the Toby Townly character continues in POPULAR COMICS.











The way black people were depicted in comics in this period has since been criticized.


















Toby Townly would eventually regain her eyesight in DICK TRACY. But at this point the focus switches away from her to other characters in the strip. 







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Monday, October 1, 2018

Toby Townly Story In DICK TRACY Pt.1









Toby Townly was a girl character in DICK TRACY who was inspired by Toby Wing. The story was reprinted in POPULAR COMICS, which is available on the internet at the Comic Book Plus site.








The problem of getting at the gangsters in their seemingly impregnable hideout is solved by
 the use of carbon monoxide gas* , which can be seen as a throwback to the gas warfare of the first World War.


This episode introduces Toby Townly.





































*This story appeared in the papers in May 1935, only months before the death of Thelma Todd. The claim that Thelma Todd did not know about the dangers of carbon monoxide gas seems doubtful because it was something that had been in the news.



Toby Wing, Toby Townly, and Dick Tracy:



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Monday, September 22, 2014

Toby Wing On Television



And here is Toby Wing on television. From RADIO NEWS, May 1939 ( same issue that had the Dorothy Appleby picture ).






Toby Wing on television:
http://digital.hagley.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15017coll24/id/245/rec/14


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Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentines Day!






From:


                                                                     Mary Pickford

 
 
 
 
Lelia Hyams






                                                                       Lupe Velez

 
 
 
 
Joan Blondell
 
 
 
 
 
Sue Carole
 
 
 
 
 
Mary Carlisle
 
 
 
 
 
Priscilla Lane
 
 
 
 
 
 
June Marlowe

 
 
 
 
Jeanette MacDonald
 
 
 
 
 
Toby Wing

 
 
 
Toby Wing
 
 
 
 
 
Marie Wilson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
 
Ann Sheridan 

 
 
 
 
Dona Drake
 
 




                                                                       Natalie Wood

 
 
 
Supergirl
 






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Sunday, September 8, 2013

CLOSEUP AND COMEDY By Johnson And Scarbo





Another series of newspaper cartoons, this time focusing on people in comedy. We see many familiar names here, including Lyda Roberti, Rosina Lawrence, Chester Morris, and Oliver Hardy.





Lyda Roberti was Thelma Todd's replacement at the Roach studio.




 
Oliver Hardy played villians early in his career. He was a villain in his first film with Stan Laurel, LUCKY DOG, before either of them was working for Roach.





Rosina Lawrence may be best known as Our Gang's schoolteacher, although she worked with Laurel and Hardy and was in what had been the Thelma Todd series as well.
 
 
 
 
Chester Morris used to work for Roland West and was in CORSAIR with Thelma Todd as "Alison Loyd".
 
 

 
Marie Wilson was in BABES IN TOYLAND. She was a babe, all right.
 
 

 
Darla Hood was one of the Our Gang kids.
 
 

 
Evalyn Knapp was the star of AIR HOSTESS.
 
 


Henry Armetta knew Thelma Todd and worked with her in the movies. He was in Indianapolis when he learned of her death, as I recall.
 
 
 

 
Sharon Lynn was in WAY OUT WEST with Laurel and Hardy. She was the bad girl who schemed to get the inheritance that rightfully belonged to Rosina Lawrence.
 
 
 
 
 
Margaret Lindsay was one of the women that Pat DiCicco was involved with.
 
 
 

 
Nat Pendleton was in the movie DECEPTION with Thelma Todd.
 
 

 
Ted Healy slapped people around for a living. He didn't always get away with it in real life.
 
 

 Toby Wing was in the last Lyda Roberti and Patsy Kelly two-reeler, HILL TILLIES. 
 
 
 
 
 
Early in her career Lucille Ball dated Pat DiCicco and worked with the Three Stooges.





 
 
Lupe Velez used to be married to Johnny Weissmuller.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Priscilla Lawson was in MY MAN GODFREY with Carole Lombard, but what everyone remembers her for today was playing Ming's daughter in the first Flash Gordon serial. 
 
 
 


Will Hays was made a censor in response to complaints about pre-code movies.










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