T1IE NEBRASKAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938 PAGE THREE Cartoons Greatly Affect Public Opinion, Says Black 0z" Tells Working Process of Creating Weekly Comic Page. "Cartoons influence public opin ion more than editorials because they are looked at and easily un derstood," was the statement made by Oz Black, Nebraska's popular cartoonist. He said that the two functions of cartoons are to edu cate and entertain, and their influ ence on public opinion is political economic and civic. The interest in comics has a very strong hold on the public and much more space is being devoted to the comic sec tions. Comics are used more than ever in advertising, and the most expe?v Bive space in the Hearst advertis ing section is comic advertising ac cording to Oz Black. Many times the satire and ridicule of cartoons can accomplish more than any other method in political cam paigns. As to the future of car tooning, Oz thinks that there will RENT-A-CARS Are Easy And Quick To Get At The Motor Out Company 1120 P St. Always Open Late models, moderate prices. Reduced price on long trips. BRS19. SECOND BIG WEEK! . . SO GOOD THAT MANY ARE SEEING IT TWICE. with ERROL OLIVIA FLYNN DE HAVILLAND no-rs ORPHEUM Hurryl Ends Thursday! Always A Seat For 25C The hilarious comedy 'A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER" witll An All Star Fun Cast Plus! JOAN BENNETT HENRY FONDA in -I MET MY LOVE AGAIN" FRIDAYI From be more and better cartoons, which will change according to the trend of the times. Readers Contribute. As creator of "Here in Lincoln" Oz says that he got his inspira tion for his cartoon from "The Passing Show'' by Billy Ireland, of the Columbus Dispatch, who died a few years ago. He gets most of the subjects for his cartoons from the readers of his column and he usually has three times as much material as he can use. He gets his other ideas from holi days, community movements, and unusual events. His cartoons illus trate the events properly, and ex perience he got from his habit of illustrating his thoughts or ideas in his letters by drawings makes it easy for him. He says that hu man interest and personal interest are presented in his cartoons of ac tual happenings with humorous as pects. People like to read about their friends' . unusual experiences and see their own name in print, so they send in their unusual in cidents. The process that Oz uses in working out his ideas is to choose his subject, decide what he wants to say and how he will say it, and then apply some familiar situation so that it will be easily grasped by his readers. The situation that he uses may be from life, a game, lit erature, or from the Bible. The idea has to apply in every detail so that the public understands it, and the more action the better. Personifying abstract things as his use of the weatherman, and girls with clever names to represent the different seasons is one of the best ways of portraying a situation. The editors require Oz to be non partisan and confine his cartoons to local and state happennigs. oz is careful to be very sure of his source of his material. He keeps all of his material for a few months after it is used as proof of its existence and authenticity. Maintains References. Oz keeps an immense amount of reference material consisting of clippings of pictures on every sub ject he can think of. A cartoonist's reference mateiial is of unesti matible value to him when he wants to draw an article accurate ly, and so Oz has his clippings in sured for $300. This type of insur ance was new to the salesman but he finally furnished it. Ding Darling, who signs his car toons as "Ding," used to do all of the cartoons for the front page of the Journal and many other pa pers, but he has been succeeded by Carlisle in the last few years and only draws cartoons at his leisure. He is Oz's choice for the best political cartoonist and Ding's nationwide fame substantiates the choice. Orphan Annie is another cartoon that Oz likes very much. When the moving picture, "Snow White," was mentioned he said that he thought it was an unbeliv able accomplishment to make a picture that was so life-like from drawings. The coordinated move ments of the animals as well as the capers of the dwarfs were al mist perfect in his estimation. Oz said that he has alwavs been Interested in cartooning and started taking a correspondence course in cartooning when he was only twelve. After he graduated from the University of Nebraska he went to work as a cartoonist on the Lincoln Star, where he originated his popular cartoon, "Here in Lincoln." He moved to the Journal a few years later where he has continued his work. His cartoons have had a dominat ing influence in bringing about changes in beautifying the city of Lincoln. (I Wdi&kaL New Victor Recordings. Stars and Stuff By Dean Pohlenz In the Manner of Walter Winchell. The Theater Scene. HOI POLLOI: Barney Oldfield without whom this pillar couldn't exist, is going ultra come Septem ber. Instead of the usual role of chronicler he parks his super loud form on a board rostrum, sur rounded by albinoes and pygmies. . . . Heeza freek! .... Common people, even as you 'n' me are an noyed no little by the terrific ocular strain forced upon an un suspecting audience during the airing of KFOR news flashes from the Stuart screen. Undoubtedly a good scheme, probably, the product of Bob Huffman's cerebellum, the idea fails to click because of the visual interference. . . Something like the hurricane scene in Hurri cane. Erstwhile newsvoicer John Edwards, still sartonally super eleerant. soiourned on this cam pus last weakend. AT THE HONKYTONKS: Stuart has double or nothing bill and almost comes up with noth ing. Eddie G. Robinson is amus ing in Slight Case of Murder and Joan Bennet is stunning in I Met My Love Again. Lincoln, sans Kurth Nelson, former house boss, is showing a twin bill, too. Irene Dunne's Joy of Living is supported, none too strongly by oldie Swing Your Lady. Robin Hood is cluttering up the Or pheum with his nasty old ar rows." Birth of a Baby is stork ing at the Capitol and Varsity has the Armstrong-Ross fight pitchers. Kiva's Holiday fea tures Hepburn and Grant in a film below Bringing Up Baby. The only recent item that com pares with it is Yella Pessl's rendi tion of two Bach keyboard suites, the so-called English suites for harpsichord. To these ears Miss Pessl plays neither so poetically as Wanda Landowhka nor so seni- tively as Kirkpatrick, but with more virility and Cezanne-like firmness than these or any of her colleagues. Perhaps if she had col laborated in another recording that of Hortense Monath and the Pasquier Trio in Mozart's piano quartet in E flat the results would have been more distin guished. As it is, Miss Monath's rather pedestrian and reticent in terpretation of the piano role takes the edge off one's enjoyment of this quartet. Carl Philip Emanuel Bach s "Magnificat" is another recent ex ample of phonography wherein the music tops the performance. Just the reverse is true of Bruno Wal ter's version of Brahms' "Acad emic Festival Overture," and on a different level, of Benny Good man's two ten inch records coupl ing "Sweet Lorraine" with "Dizzy Spells" and "Oh Boom" with "Al ways and Always." The first of these swing offerings, featuring Goodman's quartet and trio, is bet ter than the second, tho not by any wide margin. The only completely satisfying ten inch record to appear this month was Paul Robeson's mag nificent conception of "Dere's a Man -Goin' Roun' Takin' Names," "Work all de Summer" and "Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel." New Publications. Several important new publica tions impose themselves if you mean to keep abreast of every worthwhile musical event. I refer particularly to the biographies of Palestrina and Berlioz that have just been added to the excellent format published by Dutton known as the Master Musicians Series. And should you wish to recall what composers were doing over the years that lapsed between Palestrina'a golden polyphony of romanticist Berlioz, you could do no better than browse thru a sparkling, unacademic history of music by W. L. Landowski, "La Musique a travers les ages." It has just been published in Paris by Calmann-Levy, and chances to be dedicated to one of your fa vorite pianists, the Mozart spe cialist Madame Marquerite Long. Now that the franc has swooped down again, you can probably ob tain this diverting history of music for 60 cents. This is the moment to buy from France, whether it be histories of music or gowns on the Rue de la Paix! A NOW THRU THURSDAY fc. Every Day Is a Holiday When Yon Are in Love. CARY GRANT KATHRYN HEPBURN Edward Everett Horton In "HOLIDAY" V Welcome Summer School Students! Plan now to attend the K1VA, "The Little House of Big: Hits," which is bringing to you the big gest hits of the season! STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 10TH. ONE OF THE TRULY RARE ACHIEVE MENTS OF CINEMA HISTORYI jm " """" v.::''.-::v':---:-.-.. HtrOMaT PONAff liUSM jiWM: SUMMER PRICES MAT. NIGHT 15c 20c The Pen Of ' Hurry! Latt 2 Dayt! Erich Maria Remarque comes one of the most beautiful love stories ever written . . . Now even more glorious with these four grand i : J -1 Starts FRIDAY! "JOY OF LIVING" plus! "Swing Your Lady" THURSDAY- WHITE GODDESS OF A JUNGLE EMPIRE1 i . A Seat For 25c f X M 7SZ ( "r25c THE PRESS: From the cover of the new Billboard grins the youthful puss of Bob Crosby, now eligible since his divorceroo from Judy LeMarr. . . Topflighting the songs thi3 week are Lovelight in the Starlight. Cathedral in the Pines and smoothie Don't Be That Way. Last named was an also tan until the lyrics crooned by Bingo the Crosby were waxed and sold tremendously. . . Sheetmoosic is headed by Love Walked In, Cry Baby Cry and Please Be Kind. . . Most up and coming of the newer tunes is Sez My Heart. W. W. points out in yesterday's bit that only one play is a hit while six are flops. . . That's a pretty lousy average. "We uns are agoin' to make hash of them radio guys in our battle of the weaklings on the muny softball diamonds June 16," avows Glenn Trump, ace Scribe hurler. Boss Bentley will head the Noospepper delegation while Harry Johnson, he of the Peachy Crunchy Johnsons, will lead the Radio lads. PERSONAL: Harvey Traylor, from Pueblo, Colo., replaces Hank Robertus as Stuart assistant house manager. Student Hank has gone to R. O. T. C. camp. Eddie Vaughan comes to the Lincoln re placing Nelson. Barney smirking ly reprimands Mr. Traylor for go ing back on Grerley. . . He came east! (;OLI) MINK SANTA ROSA, Calif. (ACP). The Santa Rosa Junior college be lieves it ia the only college in the world that owns a gold mine. It was bought for the college recent ly at a tax sale for $2.85 by Jesse Peter, the institution's geological curator, and will be "worked" by students studying mining. There's no gold in the mine, bo students will have no get rich quick incen tive to stury. STARTS WEDNESDAY! ArjTrni I MAGEE'S He'll enjoy the comfort of Shirts -by Manhattan Take the torture out of his summer days, with a shirt that is good looking and com fortable. 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