This next installment of 1935 Paramount Sales News cartoons features some nice “color” renderings of Popeye and Betty. There’s one of those beautiful cartoony horses that Mike Barrier despises in March 27th’s cartoon, and we get a whole crowd of people in their underwear as part of “The Short Parade” on April 10th. It’s a pity Betty would “take care of your box-office” (as she says on April 24th) because by this point in her career, she was best “taking care” of patrons by putting them to sleep!
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03/06/1935
03/13/1935
03-20-1935
03/27/1935
04/03/1935
04/10/1935
04/17/1935
04/24/1935
Here’s a sample of what the Paramount salesmen were selling to the theaters at the time these promotional pieces above appeared in print.
Below: Stop That Noise (released March 15th, 1935)
Below: Pleased To Meet Cha! (released March 22nd, 1935)
THAD KOMOROWSKI is a writer, journalist, film restorationist and author of the acclaimed (and recently revised) Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. He blogs at 
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