Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1946 — Page 6

No Such Thing

information comes - straight from a man who's responsible for the. things. Our expert is Sidney Fields. War~ ner Brothers pay him a fat salary every week to be funny on paper.

to do is follow a formula. (And that's what we've suspected of many a gag man for a long time).

jokester Fields said. “Humor is traditional, There is no such thing as ‘s» new joke.” (He's telling us?) All you do, he explained, is make an old joke sound fresh by giving it a current twist. : “You've got to be topical, that's

or JEWELRY Irs Tavel's Watch Repairing

10-DAY SERVICE

TaYE Y¥ NI TARE A

Wiiter Says There's ’ H's an Old One Dressed Up

Expert Explains How Old Stories Are Made Fresh By Giving Them a Current Twist, and It Isn't Easy

or United Press Hollywood Correspondent : HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5.—There is, we regret to report today, ye escaping those jokes the movie comedians have been ramming down our throats for years.

.1947'11 be just like 'em. Our

It's simple, he ‘says. All you have

{/rubber ‘bands in the

as a New Joke,|

MACPHERSON

The gags of

all” elaborated Mr; Fields, who is a | sad-eyed little man. “It's a case of knowing the formula and then {clothing it in the current calamity.”

{ "Trend of Jokes The whole story of gag writing]

in the fluctuations from year to!

how he got along when he use

Costello and Eddie Cantor.

Duey in Recital

| PHILIP DUEY, above, these days, he thinks, is reflected) nq grpist-teactier of voice at Jor-

and the

“yr rv i ” he I'll show you what 1 mean, b Jordan chorus of 125 voices.

“Todgy Bob Hope reads a

|added. ‘If the!

newspaper ad on ‘the air:

| custom-built 1 person who stole the cu arias and ONES,

|convertible from the front of the Ridlto theater last night will return | the two pounds of hamburger in th !front seat he can have the car’”

e | BET, | faculty.

His program for Nov. 17 will ine classic, romantic and modern in which he will be accompanied by Dorothy Munpianist, also of the Jordan

baritone

dan conservatory, will be heard in year in commodity shortages. That's| recital at English's Sunday, Nov. d to! 17, at 3 p. lm, "work or tunnymen lke Jack Benny, 1%, Die SPER 0 LLC A good joke never grows old,” Fred Allen, Bob Hope Abbott and , ities, is director of the Jordan

40-voice choir Butler-

Presents New Heart-Throb

* "Best Years’ Introduces Comely Cathy O'Donnell

] By JACK GAVER United Press Staff Correspondent ; NEW YORK, Nov. §-—RomanJ tically inclined males of all ages are going to discover a new Hollywood heart-throb when they see a movie called “The Best Years of Our Lives.” The name is Cathy O'Donnell, Right now that name doesn’t mean any more in Siluria and Greensboro, Ala, or in Oklahoma City than it does in Shanghai but there are people in those first three places who will remember a kid] named Ann Steely. That's Cathy, | who underwent a change of name as soon as Sam Goldwyn signed her | to a contract.on first sight, without benefit of a screen test. . | Cathy is in town now, anxiously | awaiting the late November premiere of her first movie. “Be sure to say something nice about William Wyler, the director,” Cathy cautioned. “He didn't han-

there were times when my feelings| for him were a mixture of terror

and anger, but after I got used to the work"I realized what a help he|

was to me and that he's anice|

| Two years ago, Mr, Fields said, | Jack Benny would have read it like this: “1f that so-and-so (Mary's. mink coat will

who stole return the right-hand

| pocket he can have the coat.”

Never Grow Old

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| That, he says is what he means by a joke never growing old. we| |said we followed him, all right. And| have for more movies than we like

{to think about, | Mr. Fields currently is being | “topical” for the Warner Brothers technicolor film, “My Wild Irish |Rose.” Dennis Morgan and Andrea |King are the stars. Mr. Fields’ job is to think up funny-old-jokes-with-a-new-twist for George Tobias and Bén Blue. ; . We said once a gag writer convinces himself there's no such thing as a new joke the rest must be a cinch. We could just picture Mr.

Times Amusement Clock

ENGLISH “Tobacco Road,” play,

CIRCLE “The Time of Their Lives” with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, at 10:45, 1:41, 4.37. 7:33 and 10:29, “The Runaround,” with Ella Raines and Rod Cameron, at 13:15, 3:11, 6:07 and 9:03.

INDIANA “Claudia and David,” with Dor othy MoGuire and Robert Young, at 11, 1:45, 4.30, 7:20 and 10:05. “Hot Cargo,” with William Gargan, Jean Rogers and Philip Reed, at 12:50, 3:35, 6:26 and 8:10.

LOEW'S “Mr. Ace,” with George Raft and Sylvia Sidney, at 11, 1:46, 4:32, 7:18 7:18 and 10:07. “Shadowed,” with Anita Louise, at 12:24, 3:10, 5:56 and 8:45.

at 8:30,

LYRIC “Two Years Before the Mast,” with Alan Ladd, at 41:25, 1:30, 3:40, 6:45, 7:50 and 10. ?

person.” Saved Up For Tryout

So ‘is Cathy. She's in her early

teen-ager ‘of .the non-bobbysock] type. She is five-foot-four, weighs 110 pounds, has brown hair and] brown eyes... She’s had an eye ori ‘lacting ever since she can remember | and €id a lot of amateur playing | while a student at Oklahoma City | university. She went to Hollywood with money saved from stenographic work and after two weels there was approached by an agent who took her to Goldwyn. ' Goldwyn immediately shipped her | to New York for a semester at the! American Academy ‘of dramatic! Arts. : Cathy's chief interest aside from acting is poetry. She writes it and not badly at that. ol

|Pields going through all the old gags he could remember and twist-

{ing them around to fit the housing

{shortage or the atom bomb or the

| United Nations conference. Works With Actors He said that just showed how much we knew. He said it was hard work. Practically nerve-wracking,

Heads New Movie Firm

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5 (U. PJ). Mary Pickford today became president of the newly-organized | Triangle nounced

Productions and

the

an- | firm would make $1,250,000 pictures within the next year, i

in fact. “I always work on the set with the actors,” he explained. “And I spend most of my time dancing around, acting out all the characters. If I think falling on the floor for the punch line will get a laugh from the director, I fall on | the floor. It's part of my racket.”

LAST DAY—"CLAUDIA AND DAVID” PLUS “HOT CARGO”

¥ WHLIAM FAULKNER (EIGH BRACKITY Al ND JULES FURTHMAN MOM Img NOVEL BY RAYMOND CHANDLER « BIUSIC 8Y MAX STRINGER

* HERE THEY ARE!

~ Setting a-new tempo

NEW WARNER SENSATION! “uo

in pulse-pounding screen excitement |

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FOR TUNES &

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Roof Vocalist -

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Mary Malley, vocalist featured with Joe Sanders and his “Night hawks,” who will open at the Indiana Roof ballroom tomorrow

ight:

. : Hosts Listed for . # . 4 Artists Exhibit Hosts and hostesses for the Indiana Artists club exhibition this week in L. 8. Ayres’ tea room foyer have been announced, . - Serving today are Mr, and Mrs. L. O. Griffith and Mrs. Alberta Shulz of Néshville, Mrs, Cloradel Salmon and Miss Ruth Anderson

of Indianapolis. . Serving tomorrow .will be Mr, and

Mrs. Dale Bessire of Nashville, Other members expected to” serye during the week’s exhibit are Mr. and Mrs, Frederick Polley, Miss

Letha Gaskins, Mrs. Effie F, Carter, Mrs. Hazel B. Hayes and E. C.

Mexico Travelog Booked at Murat

“Mexico Today” will be the subject of Burton Holmes’ travelog at [the Murat theater at 8:30 p. m. to-

day.

| First of the five travelogd Mr.

: : | Holmes will give on five successive dle me with kid gloves and I BUESS | vv esday evenings, the lecture will

present movies in color of Mexigo

City and surrounding country.

Other. subjects of Mr. Holmes’ | TONITE S @, series will include “California,” | ENGLISH au wrk 8:30 9 “Hawaiian “Islands,” “Quebec and | the Gaspe Peninsula” and “The Caribbean Islands.”

Seats are on sale at Gladys Alw

twenties. bus oe Books, figures and| music shop, 120 N. Pennsylvania st.;| enthusiasm she could pass for a ang at 7:30 p. m. today, at the Murat box office,

Ropkey of Indianapolis. Also Mrs. Harriet Jeffries of* Carmel, Ruthven Byrum of Anderson, E. K. Wiliams of Nashville and William T. Turman of Terre Haute. rp ————————————————————— "TEEY-AGERS GET LIFE YUBA CITY, Cal, Nov. 5 (U, P.). --Billy Anderson, 16, and Nathern James, 15, yesterday were sentenced to life imprisonment for the double slaying of young Anderson's father and stepmother. They were convicted of the killing last week.

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