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Chief Hearst gunman for 1932 is 75-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, creator of "Happy Hooligan." Never an art student, Cartoonist Opper worked long for oldtime Puck, joined the Hearst press in 1899, first won fame & fortune with his cartoons of theMcKinley-Bryan campaign of 1900. For 30 years Arthur Brisbane has contributed political ideas for the Opper pencil. Early in this campaign "Happy Hooligan" was allowed to lapse when Publisher Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little...
...prime pounders: Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram and Harold Morton Talburt of the Washington News. Mr. Kirby, scholarly and artistic, has a distaste for the Opper type of cartoon with its dialog in balloons. He was the pride of the old New York World. He and Talburt were both active in the 1928 campaign and the slogans of that fight echo through their work this year (see Kirby...
None knows better than Publisher Hearst the power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
...Cartoonists of America made Illustrator Gibson one of their guests of honor last week. Two others were 70-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, whose masterpiece was Happy Hooligan; and William Allen Rogers, "dean of political cartoonists...
...years ago, the Gowens honeymooned in their 98-ft. yacht, Speejacks, crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, weathered a China Sea monsoon, slipped through the teeth of reefs, limped back to Manhattan while the world gasped at a young couple that could endure such storms, such hazards. Died. Laura Opper, painter of portraits and benefactor of painters; in Manhattan. Her work has been hung in numerous galleries abroad and in the U. S. In 1893, she established one of the first "neighborhood houses"-in Allen Street, Manhattan. Died. Dutch Louie, 26, famed yegg, gunman; in Cherry Hill, Manhattan. His shooting recalled...