Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Mar 1935, p. 23

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pecking away at a tylpewriter in his shirt-sleeves. Maybe so. But the biting cartoons of Carey Orr on the staff of the Chicago Tribune are backed up by brawn., He is a big cbap, with a deep vo)ice, blonde hair in the retreat ,that belongs to tbe forties, blue-eyed. Somune- tbh in- ii is voice makes .one think "southerner," but lie say s no,1 "born in Ohio," ini Ada, to.be precise. Mr. Orr's office wasiassigned to him, no doulit,. by somebody wbo knew his business. That somebedy placed two1 *political cartoonists alone on the thirty- first floor of the Tribune tower, John T. McCutcbe!oný and, Carey Orr. "YoU know whén you sit up here, the troubles of the depression don't seeni to depress you niuch," commented the cartoonist as lie swung' 'round. in bis chair and gazed out of the window. Ii the haze <of aI2ntarv afternoon the view the tuie was ail but wastecl. Not a single thing was settled, and Mr. Orr was well launcbed in a most orderly marshaling of facts te prove that the world is making great progress toward beingcléaner,,etcetera, when his gaze f ell upon the Wrigley'cdock opposite bhis window and bis band feu- upon the large pad of sketcbing sheets lying on the floor. DedieCtts l'a "Sorr'y, but I've got. to, get up a cartoon for totnorrow and as yet, 1 donit bave a, single.i dea," lie broke off. "It takes me an, bour and a baif to two hours to do one after 1 get the thouglit, and My deadline is at five." 1Deadlines being deadlines on every paper, and probably more so on the "world's greatest newspaper," the inter- view bad to be ended. riRlit then and Tribune librarian confessed te having not one of the followitig: "Nashvillé Business Men," publisbed in 1914.; "Comin' Thru With Rye," in the same year,,anid "Borrowed Glory," publisbed in. 1926. in ber chagrin. sbe. deci ded to call up Mr. Orr at once, and' ask for, library copies because sbe bas available. most of tbe opuses of the Tribune staff. And. she says lie told'her tbat, lie, didn't have any. The few he once -possessed had been stored in the basemeni at home in Wilmette and become water-loIgged. No, lie didn'ithtink the public library hl.ad any copies. The books were chiefiy for local Circulation, whicli in the case of the first two miust mean Nashville.. Tbe cartooning scbedule on the Trib- une caîls for three cartoons a week froni Mr. McCutcheon and six f rom Mr. Orr. Thus it usually works out that on the days both are poungMr. McCutcli- eon's appear on the front page and Mr. Orr's on the editorial page. And when Mr. Orr's make the front page, Caar Williamsg 1educes -for the edltôrial page. "Occasionally botb Mr. McCutch- eon and I pick the sanie subject," ré- marked Mr. Orr, but not often. The other day, thougli, we botli chose the World court issue." These are duil times, too, for cartoon- ing, moaned Mr. Orr, if a big éhap wlio obviously can take it on the chin non- cbalantly can be said to moan. Tben he brightened, "Now if there would just be a revoit in japan, and Stalin would be overtlirown, and Mussoini would resign, ah-b Motor Acceptance Has lOth Birthday The tenth anniversary of, its organi- zation was celebrated this week by the Motor Acceptance company, located in the State Bank building, Evanston. A banquet was given Tuesday evening for the officers and employees, nuni- bering sixty, at the North Shore hotel, and fromn there the entire group went to the home of Owen L. Coon. oresi- Mrs. Eugene Slappey, 624 Abbots- fard road, I<enilworth, will entertain ber luncheon bridge club next Mon- day. [jIVERSITI *TOURS VALUE-OF TODAVI Mi. UONE censplèeTeura, SANS. ON 018.LUXA :ITAUAu un" IAcholoepf 27 olI..xponswe nductud Tour. 29 W7 dls...$411te $67.SoIIê THE'NORTH SHORE TRAVEL SERVICE State Bank BIdg., Evanston Gre. 5000 WiI. 5000 Bn. 5000 FSeven Smort ShoèsI 200 SI4EËTS ENVELOPES tormulateci, and the poitcal cartoonlistss ui.- Llis warartoouns we con luu>iA. 'VU. IIC1111 help make tbem vivid i the mninds of sidered excellent by many readers, and, strictly auto finance comp, the public. Two of its chef policies, as speaking of the war, Mr. Orr said that present time that has its ail readers know, are in behaif of cap- the dul1est year in al bis cartooning in the district in which itc italistn and states',riglits. experience was 1913. When the war 193i i ae vol Discussion of these took,bth- the, broke out in 1914, le was ý vacationing cf more than $3,500,00. Lloyd Hollister hIc. 1232 Central Ave.. WiImett.

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