Magic Strength

While he is wearing a cap woven from the hair that Delilah cut off Samon's head, little Willoughby is capable of great feats strength, like curling pokers into bows or rescuing the pretty barmaid from Dangerous Dan MacGoon. It's a pretty good Columbia cartoon, half Doctor Seuss and half Tex Avery -- that barmaid looks like the brunette sister of Tex' "Red" and Willoughby evinces the rather wan appeal of Droopy, just made to keep this one in bounds for kiddy matinees.

The real strength of this cartoon, though, is the clean designs, still able to shine through in the black & white cartoons, still produced by Columbia and Terrytoons. Those, alas, would not last much longer. Warners had turned out their last B&w cartoons the previous year, Metro, several years earlier, andwithn another two or three years, all new releases would be in color.