Pretty Girls

The pretty girl, the dame, the tomato, the cookie, the cutie is always welcome in a cartoon no matter how grotesque the rest of the characters may be. She comes down to us right through the ages from the first of the world—Mother Eve, Cleopatra, the Queen of Sheba, Salome, Madame du Barry, Josephine, Sadie Thompson—all of them stand out in the pages of literature like a headlight in a tunnel. The pretty girl is here to stay, and the cartoonist must include her in his repertoire. As Oscar Hammerstein sang in his great musical piece, South Pacific: "There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world."

—Joe King, outstanding advertising cartoonist




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