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Poor Miss Melissia Pendragon! (AKA "Millie Mink.") She was considered a prime witness concerning an incident in the factory where she was doing a newspaper report on at the time. During the trial, she had to describe the actions when two roughneck factory workers got into a fight over who saw her first, and caused all sorts of mayhem which disrupted production, destroyed machinery and dumped scrap metal all over the factory floor. Judge Le Mink presiding declared Miss Mink not guilty for the crimes of property damage and trespass into a production facility. The two roughhouses however faced full charges and were required to pay for the damages and help with the repairs.
Sketchbook art for
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Sketchbook art for
eocostello.
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In case someone doesn't get the somewhat subtle allusion: "Mess Production" is a wartime Famous Studios cartoon where Olive Oyl (as a wartime worker), Bluto and Popeye mix it up at a factory of some kind or another. The "Exhibit A" you see at the right is a reference to one specific scene in the cartoon where gangly ol' Olive manages to get herself into a three-way pipe, and flops about helplessly. You'll notice, by the way, the Popeye is being represented by J. Wellington Wimpy (who wasn't in "Mess Production," and indeed, makes relatively few appearances in the animated cartoon series at all). I do rather like the idea that this is a traditional "courtroom sketch."
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5utt51 at about 1.35 for the three-way pipe gag. The cartoon, by the way, was co-written by Otto Messmer, who had been heavily involved in creating Felix the Cat in the 1920s.
(My memory is that's what 
steamfox told me, and the pose and hat are consistent.)
steamfox told me, and the pose and hat are consistent.) 
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