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Getting the Laughs
Is Hard Task
By JESSE L LASKY
(Condensed from The American Le-
gion Monthly, April, 1931, by The
Magazine Digest.) performance of one hour, two hour;
and so on. "How much would you
The hardest thing for a showman charge for not playing at all?" ask:
to manage is the laugh. This treacb- Groucho. "Oh, that would run into
erous and indispensable factor has real money," says Chico, which i,
come of the best of us guessing after what we call topping the gag. Those
a lifetime in the business of entertain- lines scored one hundred per cent.
anent. Pathos, mystery, thrills, tense laughs. So did the one where Groucho
drama and even L pleasing combine turns to his hostess with "Do you.
time of qualities that sends an audi- mind if I don't smoke?" As I write
ence away with the warm glow of sat- them they are nothing to fall out o:
isfaction that is the object of the the your chair about, but that is because
etre are, by comparison, simple to I lack Groucho's art—which establish-
execute.,es another point in this laugh-produc-
There is more in every comey ing business.
aituatibn than meets the eye. We canThere is less talk in the talkies now
make a picture in the script and judge than there was at first . The eye
with fair accuracy the ultimate possi- remains the quickest messenger to the.
bilities in every particular except hu-
be
and the funny -bone. A great
mor. This we are never certain of deal of the technique developed in the.
until the long (and costly) road of silents is corning back. This centres
production has been travelled and the about the art of pantomime, one of the
film is shown before a payaudience. oldest forma of humor, of which
Playbacks of individual scenes and Charlie Chaplin is the greates 'mod•
projection room showings of the whole ern exponent.
reversing English on an accepted an-
swer. This is how Oscar Wilde did
his epigrams, speaking, for example,
of a man who had a lavish funeral
as "dying beyond his means." Groucho
Marx is a master of this. In "Ani-
mal Crackers" his brother Chico, play-
ing a weird -looking instrument, says
how much he intends to charge for a
"Oar R
The attendant at the gas
the automobile.
"I have used twenty ga
exclaimed the driver.
"Havergil? why that's ins.
and his face lighted up with a
"I left home last Fall in se„
to leave the old folks but therel,was no work there. They have a
'telephone and each week 'I tai xto them. We call it our re -union
day".
As the stranger eased hist
he said to his wife• and daught
separated just as this man is
or oftener by means of the to
to Alexander Graham Bell!"
pion Day"
atioA was busy filling the tank of
s of gas since I left Havergil"
home town," said the attendant
added interest in the stranger.
xch of ;work. It was a hard pull.
ar back into the stream of traffic
, "I wonder how many families,
are being re -united once a week
phone? How much we all owe
after it has been cut and made ready
for release do not tell what we wish
by itiever'e,111 takes an -e udicmge–that.:
has come to be entertained to decide
whether the laugh spot brings laughs
or not. And no failure in the realm
of film entertainment is more devas-
The oldest and surest device of tele
paatomimist is the trick fall. In the
b fiddle Ageeewheirdesters-were roblig-
ed to, make royalty laugh on penalty
of,th their ace in the hole was the
fall. Maurice Chevalier gets a laugh
when he falls on roller skates in his
tating than the laugh which does- t haste to reach the beautiful blonde in
come off. one of his plays.
Two years ago one of the finest Al]. physical comedy is akin. to
comedians in filmdom made his first pantomime. Our fathers laughed at
talkie. After all the time and money 'Fie -throwing, exploding cigars and
d labor had been spent, the last falling bricks in burlesque. As boys
an
shot made and the last set struck, the
film arrived in New York for a pre-
project;on showing to a small and
critical cluster of insides—executives,
ealeslnen, bookers, theatre owners,
and so on. The actor in question bad
never made a failure, but we sat there
in that bare projection room, without
music or any of the things that ,var-
nish a motion picture performance,
and were dumbfounded. Not a laugh,
not a chuckle. The picture was a floe.
So we insiders thought. The coun-
try's verdict was otherwise. That
picture made two and a half million
dollars. Three out of five who read
these remarks say it and the chances
are they laughed their heads off. And
there you are. Laughter is conta-
gious. You must have an audience
to tell if the germ is there.
levighter is a seribusiness
controls
s with
us. On the stage a good
actor
his audience. He can start and end
laughs almost at will. But in pictures
you can't suspend the dialogue until
a laugh is over. Sometimes the length
of a laugh is miscalculated and either
the following lines are drowned out
or there is a dead spot where the
laugh didn't last as long as expected.
Sometimes it is necessary to cut out
a good laugh in a talkie because it
lasts so long that it spoils a neces-
sary bit of dialogue.
We never can tell for sure when,
at what and how long they're going to
laugh. Some comedians believe . the
life of e joke seldom exceeds fourteen
days, bit Al Herman's line about how
to divide three apples equally among
four persons (the answer is to make
,apple sauce) has been in use for eigh-
t o my knowledge. Why this
we laughed at them in the silents.
With certain refinements they're in
the talkies and will remain because
their principle is as old as humor
itself. So is the principle of racial
ego. A funny Negro must be lazy,
a Scotc•hman parsimonious, a Swede
stubborn, an Irishman belligerent,
and an Englishman slow to get the
point—and all must misproonunce the
language.
Less widely known is the fact that
children and animals nearly always
add a light touch, and can take out
some of the stiffness.
It is very much simpler to make
audiences cry than to make them
laugh. Grief is a common denomin-
ator of mankind. The difficulties
which we find in producing laughter
are present in the delineation of pa-
thos, but in a smaller degree. Crowd
reaction is not so essential to tell us
where we stand. One person can usu-
ally get the reactions which will
touch thousands to tears. Ruth -Chat-
terton plays emotional roles perfectly,
because she is a perfect actress.
Contrition, repentance, sacrifice,
loss, compunctions of honor or duty,
courage with which one takes arrows
off adverse fortune—these invariably
touch well -springs. One of the most
effective scenes on the screen last
year depicted the fortitude with which
an old charwoman (Beryl Mercer)
went about her homely tasks when
the waif of a Canadian soldier whom
she had adopted was killed in battle.
But mistake me not, the volume of
laughs or tears or the number of times
our hair stands up over a thrill is
not the standard by which the success
of a picture is measured by that lion -
teen y
should hold and it -must -have -been- tamer of us producers, the audience.
two -other' -fellows should go in eigh- Itis the glow of satisfaction that a
to niQ_p J.S is more than I OOO IV'. fellow feels on the way home. No one
e talkies made 'he ];untiyliii! +Ding gives him that glow, but a eom-
or gag, a part of our stock in trade. h
The producing companies have a
corthem uy
all the time, s of g iA sure fire formula is
Owl Laffs
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and never come down. This wouldn't
be a half bad country if all the graft-
ing wore left to the horticulturists.
What Do You Think?
Dear Colyum: "I've heard that some
.husbands think their wives are regu-
lar animals. Maybe these are some of
the reasons:
1. She has a foxy look on her face.
2. She is a regular lit�tie monkey.
3. She is a "white elephant."
4, She is a regular old bear when
out of humor.'
G. Some people think she is a cat.
6. She is a regular mule for stub•
bornness.
7, She has a swanlike neck.
3. Her canine teeth are prominent.
9. She is as wise as an old owl.
10. Her actions are kittenish when
she is In the right humor.
11. She ie. a dear (deer).
13. She occasionally looks sheepish
18. She thinks she is the goat.
14. She keeps an eagle eye on bin
all the time. -
15. She is a poor fish
16. She has a whale of an appetite.
17. She growls at hien and snap,
his head off occasionally.
18. She laughs like a hyena
19. She does a lot of crowing.
—A Reader of Your Columx
Tramp—"Can you give me a bite to
eat?"
Housewife—"Have you no trade, my
good man?"
Tramp—"Yes. I make counterfeit
money, but it isn't worth what the
materials cost."
A well driven golf ball leaves the
head of the club at 135 miles an.hour.
This is said to be only slightly faster
than a golfer leaves the office.
Timid Citizen (to his lawyer)—"I'm
afraid of my wife. Why, she's even
threatened to attack me with an axe."
Lawyer—"Buhl Why worry about
that? Did you ever see a woman try
to chop a stick of wood?"
Profession Any trade that wouldn't
be necessary if people behaved them
selves.
'Let's.,Send a Couple to Congress
This ld World has not grown deca-
dent,
Why spend useless hours in re-
esliorse?
There's lust as
ever—
eoXYak .430i -801. Though most
The old saying that ;,`Handsome
is as handsome does"1°noel seem
particularly applicable to Tir,i I, the }rls .should never, never throw
Prince of Wales, who 'liar' only kisses. It's almost impossible for
them to hit the object aimed at.
The reporter was sent to write up
much horse -sense as
of it's owned by the
launched the new Canadian Pacific
liner "Empress of, Britain", but fol-
lowed her progress with suc]1 inter-
Your r
Feet?
Are How'A
'Poet troublets affect health and comfort•
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A! ]leading dihiti'g'igto or sen , the ti of
T>re CStree t eOts a tIT08iES mast ting the Crime.
54 Ahrens Street tj�ept, -itch----' C)n
est that he flew down from London a charity ball. Next day the editor
and inspected her informally, prior called him to his desk.
to her sailing from Soutbampton,,on Editor --"Look. here, Scribbler, what
May 27, on her maiden voyage. iAs Ado you mean by this? 'Among the
the great white ship made her slay most beautiful girls was Horatio Lu -
down the Solent, he followed heryby elan Dingley.' Why, you crazy idiot!
airplane; a royal send-off, indeed. Old. Dingley isn't a girl—and besides
The picture shows His Royal High- he is one of our largest stockholders."
ness shaking hands with E..:,'W: Scribbler—"I can't help it, That's '
Beatty, I .C., chairman and president where he was."
of the Canadian Pacific Rail,ay
Company, on this occasion ane :wish- "Nothing 'half-baked'
ing lihn and the vessel gopd.1uclt.,
bination of many things, running the ""Try him with Gt)c."
gaiinut of the theatre's technique as Sure enough the elephant toolz •Lite
applied to the human species in search money in his trunk and put it 111 'a
of recreation. box which hung high on the wall
•- .;`..' "That's extraordinary,". said he
Sixty-seven lifts run in nearly seven Smart ono. "Now let inc se5M1l
ri�
a
miles of elevator shafts in the worlds take it out and hand it back n
tallest building, the Empire State "We haven't taught him that
Building, New York. This Mtge erec• yet;" retorted the keeper, hien
War tg in- tion is 102 stories above ground and
d for Lar, 600 1250 feet to p
t� .
Sisters
Martha built the fire,
Martha baked the bread;
Mary roamed the fields beyond,
To watch the sun sink red.
Martha swept the hearthstone,
Mary swept the sills;
Mary spoke to all the trees
And sang to all the hills.
Martha's soul in order
Clamoured for release;
Mary's in confusion touched
The quiet hands of peace.
—Mary S. Heading in the New
Times.
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"That's a very knowing animal,"
said the young pian to the keeper
of the elephant at the circus.
"Very," was the cool reloii(
"He performs strange tricks
antics."
"Does he?" inquired the yte
eyeing the animal critically.
"Surprising," replied the keq
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Mrs. Newlywed—"We hadn't been
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Judge—"Disorderly conduct. Five
dollars and costs."
Mrs. Newlywed (sobbing bitterly)—
"And I made the cake with my own
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Judge — "Assault with a deadly
weapon—one year in prison."
Character is what we stand for; re-,
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a girl so dumb she was fired from
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couldn't remember tho prices. Judg-
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men `met up with their wives when
Central gave thein the wrong number.
livery once in while the boy who re- ,
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Dag trouble with his eyes so went to
the oculist one day, to see what the
trouble was. The oculist told him he
had sugar in his tears, and the next
Morning his wife found him crying
over his cereal. A tax is about the
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