Word: caricaturist
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...that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed occasionally by several humorists of the Standard's staff...
...appeared that "Mr. Terry" had been persuaded by Caricaturist Low to catch the disease. In an article well sprinkled with Low drawings, "Mr. Terry" explained...
...gives the public, not what it wants, but what it ought to hear (TIME, June i, 1931). The Governors carried this policy a step further last month by presenting a radio feature which they felt not the general public but their fellow politicians ought to hear: a speech by Caricaturist David Low of the London Evening Standard, with the Daily Express's Leslie ("Jack") Strube (pronounced Strooby), the ablest of present day British newspaper cartoonists. Excerpts...
...Isle of Paradise (Independent). In the last year or two, a great deal has been heard about Bali, the Dutch East Indian island whose natives live like Utopians and raise three crops of rice a year. Reporter Hickman Powell wrote a book, The Last Paradise, about Bali; Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias last year exhibited his Balinese paintings; Balinese musicians astonished Paris two years ago. The Isle of Paradise, first feature-length cinema on the subject, will multiply the already large number of people who long to go to Bali. It shows a Balinese day from sunrise to sunset. There is nothing...
...learned much more about the human face by working for a time as a barber. During the War he enlisted in crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame as a caricaturist with a pictorial biography of his former commander. European editors, unable to read the text, erroneously decided it was anti-Pilsudski in intent. Three years ago he moved to Paris to live. L'Illustration printed several of his Paris street scenes. British editors were entranced. He went to London...