Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1949 — Page 22

I Heppemed Last J Night— hp In Dis Cornaw— Tony Da Actor

Canzoneri Makes Good, As Comedian Despite Puns

By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, Jan. Y 2 Tony Canzoneri bought a Homburg hat the other day. You see, Tony iy again a champion—a champeen actor.

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Canzoneri in a Homburg—that's like Noel Coward playing fullback, . But it's important. Tony, washed up financially, his ring titles gone, started out . ET in 1940 to be a champion Earl's P earls

: : Early to bed and early to comedian—and has made it. rise and you'll never be a col- * They kidded the ex-New Or-| ympnist. leans butcher boy for being a| Fred Keating, at Spivy's, ham (pun), but he stuck. Now| psticed the reports of cold Monday he goes into the Copaca-

! weather in California and bang’ (the Madison Square Gar-| gnjyered, “Brrr! - Why, it's so den of the cafes) with Joey

cold you'd think it was Flor ida!” .

. “HOW OLD are you now?” Ilalso impersonated Edward G. asked the ex-feather, junior light-| Robinson. weight, light-weight and junior But now Tony surprises ‘em. welter champ last night. Asked to impersonate Gable, he “Just 40.” Tony was rolling a|impersonates -— Gable, He's imgood cigar around in his mouth proving, you see, as an actor. and admiring the new mink coat . oo. his wife, Rita, was wearing. At a party Toconyly at Toots “It's better than I ever had| Shor’s, ex-fighter Joe Benjamin from the fighting money,” hel gave his impersonation of Tony said. Canzoneri in his last fight. Tony's good now for $25,000 a He lifted his dukes—and the year (about what he tossed away| next second he was sprawled a year when he was fighting).| on the floor, knocked out. But life's less viglent. And he’s “1 thought it was funny,” elated when somebody refers to! Tomy told me. “Sometimes I him :as a “good actor.” | impersonate myself that way.” “I still meet guys that say 1! nw shouldn't let Joey Adams ‘slap me, in “he act,” Tony sald.

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ges Expansion

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Group Reports | On 1947 Findings

Expansion of statewide tuber

Aubereyiins Association following a report showing that 63 per cent of the 1947 cases were discovered while the disease was in the minimal stage. The figure,*an increase of 12 per cent over the previous year, “proves that mass G-ray surveys! = are being successful since more cases are being found while the

the object of the surveys,” said Murray A. Auerbach, executive secretary of the assocjation, “The more cases discovered this way, the more lives that will be saved,” he said. Approach Goal

$85,000 Is County Polio Drive Goal

Paralysis: Fund drive in Marion|ance and County has. been set at $85,000 stricken Judge Alex M. Clark, fund direc- out Togard to. position, -race or tor, has announced. creed.

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Goal of ‘the 1949 ntantlle round program of Snancial assist, . medical and ,| caredfor

Famous Ho stars of the| ; new Walt Disney film, “So. Dear Kingan Names _ New to My Heart,” will present enter- Adv ertisi Ma tainment at a benefit polio dinner sing nager at 6:30 p. m. Saturday in the| Maurice F. O'Shea of WashingClaypool Hotel. } The $10 dinner tickets are advertising manager of Kingan available at L. Str & Co. & Co. Howard- C. Greer, execuother Se 59 Vy la so arket St. * 218 Aided Here . {J Cook who resigned two months

Thé amount to be raised, Judge 282: , : : a Clark said, is necessary to care) Mr. oh has bet ve il for polio cases in the county anal of the Army. Prior to to aid in the nation-wide research the war he spent seven years in program conducted by the Na-|,qvertising and sales for another tional Foundation for Infantile, .a¢ packer. Paralysis. ——————— i ——— In Marion County the local C, C. JONES TO SPEAK Claude C.. Jones, 37° E. Maple

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. Of the approximately 220,000 Hooslers X-rayed in 1947, 357 active cases of reinfection tuberculosis were found. In addition 122 cases of questionably active tuberculosis and 471 suspect cases were noted. “Our goal is to find every case while it is in the minimal stage. We shall move closer to this achievement with the expansion of X-ray programs and clinical facilities and the increased efforts of private physicians,” Mr. Auer-| bach said.

FAST RELIEF for Miseries of

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was a pretty ‘good fighter. I've brother.

known him ground Btillman'a

Vie says, “Tony, I wouldn't do that kind of work for any

money.! 1 says, ‘What are you doing?

“He says, ‘I'm a dishwasher’.” TONY AND Joey Adams kid each other on the floor. One night Adams kept saying, “Tony, it's very dangerous to be funnier than the star.” “It may be dangerous but it ain't difficult, ” sal Tony. - »

Slapping Eliminated

ANOTHER time when Adams

talk as if you had my muscles.” Because the crowd loves Tony, harm. of the slapping, although.

harmless, has been eliminated. Adams also took out a line: {You fought Barney Ross toot, many times.” His “acting” success is a naj ural: why, when he was still fighting, he led a band (for /one week), . “I'd wave a baton ayid the crowd would yell, ‘S box. A

-{for not throwin’ a punch, he says,

my tights.”

Tony, so I'd shadows box. . manager brought Pedple to »

a. 8». : HE W. IN a show called, “They oulda Stood in Bed,” critics kayoed. “Thé audience

stood im bed,” say. Tony. had a fight scene between t pugs, each trying to throw e fight. : “Neither one was throwin’ a punch,” Tony remembers. “Finally one got so mad at the other

‘Walit'll I get out outside of the ring'!"™ Ja It was after.this that Tony and Joey Adams hooked up. They started out with the old-}’ est fight gag ‘known«"I'll never forget my first fight—men yelled, | women screamed, etc... . I forgot

. r . . Impersonates Gable TONY ALSO did an excellent impersonation of Edward G. Robinson. Then he'd impersonate Clark Gable and Shirley Temple, . ‘there being e difficulty: | when he impersonated them, he

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