First Hazel cartoon

[Smilings]

I was reading the excellent Shirley Booth biography "Love is the Reason for it All."

Foreword by Ted Key, who reveals his first Hazel cartoon November 1942.

"A thin round-shouldered, bleary-eyed, lumpy-nosed maid stood in the living room and addressed her employers, who had just returned home from the movies... 'A Mr. Marmon - or Harmon - called and you're to meet him tomorrow morning on the corner of Elm and South - or was it North Street - about 8 - or did he say 9 o'clock - and if you can't make it, you're to phone Sycamore 8-5-7-something -4, as it's very important'."

I can hear Shirley Booth saying it!

[missy's pop pop]

Shirley Booth THIN? I don't think so! Sounds more like "Esmerelda" from "Bewitched," minus the disappearing act.

[Will Dockery]

Originally Posted by Smilings

I was reading the excellent Shirley Booth biography "Love is the Reason for it All."

Foreword by Ted Key, who reveals his first Hazel cartoon November 1942.

"A thin round-shouldered, bleary-eyed, lumpy-nosed maid stood in the living room and addressed her employers, who had just returned home from the movies... 'A Mr. Marmon - or Harmon - called and you're to meet him tomorrow morning on the corner of Elm and South - or was it North Street - about 8 - or did he say 9 o'clock - and if you can't make it, you're to phone Sycamore 8-5-7-something -4, as it's very important'."

I can hear Shirley Booth saying it!

Hazel put on a little weight in the twenty years since 1942.