Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-30

on the classified M ro-c end there
they are, up 70 some Of the inimitahle
stunts"
! The latest addition t. the list Ct
Star-Bulletin daily features are D"ro
thy Dix and Briggs.
Dorothy Dix, the wise, gracIJus
widely-traveled and widely read help
ful woman a Keen, forceFlI ant el0-
Guent writer, with spherical }''wors
of observation, feminine through and
| throUgh-this, the highest-paid Of all
! women writer's, contributes the Doro
! thy Dix talk to the Star-Bulletin three
I times a week-Monday, Wednesday
! and Friday.
J Already the DCl othy DIX 2rtiClcs are
! followed nightly BY thousands OF read
| ers-men as we'll as wo ian they
! are immensely Jo1uia,
Clare w. Briggs is latest OF all
! and Briggs has r'ade So,ue!,iu@ big
/ hit with Star-BVlIetin readers, just as
he has made a smaShng hir ht ~ the
! last two years all over the maiulanc.
! Briggs and h, Kelly Peel and Golf
! cartoons, his When a FCiIcr Needs
1t happens in the PcSt,RcgulateG
Families, Amt 1t a Grand and G!c-
rtous Feelin ?"-Briggs is great.
Hawaii Think so, judging by the
! friends he has made here
And here is screening ABOUT Briggs
| himself, by a friend, Donald Wilhelm:
A man named BriGgs-he hasn't d
first name-drew a cartoon f.. the
| New York Tribune. 1t was one OF 4
series called "When FeIler Needs a
| Friend" 1t showed q man snoring
A woman wrote from Philadelphia to
thank the cartOonist for a family
portrait Of her husband She said she
had framed it, A girl wrote from Ne
vada to thank the editors OF the Tri-
bune for a fine pen-and-ink study Of
! the man she hal left behind her. And
when Briggs went home to New
Rochelle-"Forty-fiye minutes from
Broadway"-his little son looked a.,
the cartoon and said. That's Daddy. -
1t was a good cartO0n.
It was a good cartoon for one very
simple reason-it entertained people,
all kinds of people. all nationalitjes OF
people, a few millions or so-ioT a
syndicate scatters Briggs far and
wide, all over America, even Europe
But why did this cartoon entertain
people? II any young cartOonist knew
just why, he could settle to the In
creasing profession OF drawing pic
lures more sure Of success. AND the
why is good for any other art under
the sun.
Mark Twain could have explained
why. Henri BergSOnt the eminent
French author of TIE finest study OF
laughter that there is. could explain.
And Briggs can explain. One ASKS
him, Why did the cartoon entertain
people,"
Because it made them laugh" he
said seriously
Why did it make them laugh"
The rudy, much-loved little man
looked up from his easel where he Was
drawing one OF his celebrated series
that had been running for five years
Days Of Real Sport which some
twenty billions of readers have laugh
ed over. He looked up and smiled His
smile is half the answer. Nearly all the
other half comes u quick DIAGNOSIS
OF his personal makeup. He is human
much more hur4an than the critic
who complained OF his funny, fr0'ic-
some cartoons and addressed a com
plant to Horace Greeley, editor Of
the Tribune" I: one man can be more
human than another, Briggs is that
man. In fact he is the most human IL
dividual in New York City. where a
year ago he was Induced to pursue his
work, after esta blishing his re- utatioE
in Chicago. He wants to he human.
Let me be like other men" is his
prayer. Let me be typical so ! can
be human" His generous mouth is
quick to smile and to show typical
teeth-they're the kind IF. P. A.
his famous running-mate OH the New
York Tribune--might immortaliZe