Show Bomb Germany With Humor Screen Director Proposes By y HOWARD IAN HANDLEMAN I HOLLYWOOD INS Leo INS Leo McCarey who has made millions mil mi- lions of Americans laugh with his is screen comedies wants to start making Germans laugh too McCarey wants made American-made bombers to drop made comic strips on German cities to tomake tomake tomake make the Germans laugh at their their leaders He outlined his idea Wednesday as as he prepared to leave Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood for Washington to present his plans to 0 O W WI I officials The German people are re completely completely completely com com- isolated from the thought of th the rest of the world McCarey McCarey McCarey Mc Mc- Carey said They are getting a sided one-sided picture I think the best way to put over the point of view of the allied nations to them is through humor We have the gag men and the cartoonists who can do the work Also we have lots of German refugees antifascists who have worked on the German stage and andin andin andin in German literature i My idea is to have the gag men create the situations the Germans do d an an editing editing- job to make the make the i situations funny to the German people and then have the cartoonists cartoonists car car- whip out the work Kids are the same the world over he said We know they'll go for comic strips Undoubtedly their parents will say You cant can't read that Then the kids like kids everywhere will ask why Let the German parents try to answer that one The strips should have regular characters based on the weaknesses weaknesses weaknesses weak weak- nesses and ludicrous sides of the known best-known German leaders We want the Germans to see Hitler in ina ina ina a silly light to see Goering grabbing grabbing grabbing grab grab- bing all the factories and money he can With regular char characters going through humorous antics every week or so we can build up an au au- within Germany which will wilt await the comics from bombers How about the Japs Japs' JapsI I dont don't thing so said Mc Mc- Carey I think the best thing we can drop from bombers over Tokio is bombs |