The Press: Cinderella Again

Under the spoon-feeding of Cartoonist Charlie Plumb, Ella Cinders had come a long way in 25 years with United Features Syndicate. From a childhood of downtrodden poverty, homely Ella had grown up into a curly-locked career girl who had married tall & handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip.

This week, Ella’s journalistic parents solve the problem: husband Patches is coldly killed off in a plane crash. Lamented Cartoonist Plumb: “I really hated to see Patches get killed, but I had to dispose of him some way …”