LOW TO BROADCAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 9

LOW TO BROADCAST

DOMINION CARTOONIST SUCCESSFUL CAREER ' [ FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, Nov. 10 The New Zealand cartoonist Mr. David Low, famous for his brilliant work in tho Evening Standard, is to broadcast to New Zealand on December 12 at 9.15 a.m., Greenwich mean time. It will be his first Empire broadcast since 1934, when he spoke on his experiences in art. Mr. Low will be heard as a contributor to the series of talks "As I See It" —which means that he will say what he thinks about a subject of his own choosing. For once people will have a chance of hearing a spoken, instead of a sketched, answer to a question that is asked in London every week: "What does Low think about it?" , .

It was a weekly newspaper in Christchurcli that first published—and paid half-a-crown for—Mr. Low's work. Today he is 47 years old. He was born in'Dunedin and was 11 years old when the Christchurch weekly bought his cartoon. However, that early triumph did not convince his parents that they had an artist in the family, and young David was trained for the Church. The idea had been abandoned by the time he was 17 and he joined a weekly paper. His salary was £2 a week. Then followed study at the Canterbury School of Art, work for varicfus journals, a growing interest in politics, in the affairs of men. and nations—and then, in 1919, a cablegram calling him to work ,in London for the evening daily the Star. ' International fame came with his servi9e there. In 1927 he joined the Evening Standard, and in its pages he hsis consolidated his unique eminence as a commentator on the world and its ways. He does all his work in a studio away from his home. It has no telephone and visitors are forbidden—even his wife and two daughters keep away. Mr. Low has ensured tho immortality of his name.in a way that very few have achieved—-he has forced his way into tho English dictionary, his representative being, his delightful creation tho plump, Turkish-bathing "Colonel Blimp," now officially defined as "a figure caricaturing an extreme die-hard type of outlook. 1 '