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
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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.
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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!
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Every Day Is a Holiday
When Yon Are in Love.
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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!
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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.
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