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Yes Men Need Not Apply
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where, carrying my sweetheart in my arms, I attempted to cross a stream on stepping stones ? Put my foot on what appeared to be a rock, only to find it was a pig which "sprang to its feet and dumped us into the water? Well, that was my idea.
" 'Awful !' my gag men said. 'Raw ! You can't put that over. It's too much hokum. The gag's too obvious. Looks too much as if it were planted for the picture.' I argued, pleaded, browbeat, and cajoled, but they couldn't see it. I couldn't have it !
"Then I was called East. W hen I got back, they had argued it out among themselves during my absence and had decided to try it. The gag turned out to be one of the best in the picture. I happened to be right, that time, and the} were wrong. But, as often as not, it's the}* who are right.
"I insisted on doing things in 'Hot Water' which the fellows opposed, but which I finally ruled should go in. For instance, as the timid lad, I had to prepare to cut the head off a turkev and appear not to have the heart to do it. I told the bird it wasn't going to hurt, told it how nice it was to have a head chopped off by an ax. Even offered to blindfold it before I severed its neck. I coaxed it to come on and get killed, but it wouldn't listen. I put some grains of corn on a newspaper to tempt it. They happened to be directly
The comedian frequently bows to the opinion of others. He did when filming the scene below for "For Heaven's Sake" It came out.
Against strong opposition from his co-workers, Harold insisted upon the above scene in "Hot Water," but removed it when trial audiences refused to giggle.
over a picture of my mother-in-law, and when the turkey ate the corn, it looked as if the fowl was pecking at 'mother.'
" 'You're my pal !' I cried joyously.
" 'Too far-fetched !' said the bunch.
" 'Oh, no, it isn't!' I urged. 'We'll do that by all means !'
"And we did. Then we previewed the picture and that scene was a complete dud. Xot a giggle. Barely a smile. We cut it out entirely. So they were right, that time, and I was wrong.
"Paradoxically, I protested against some scenes in 'For Heaven's Sake' as being too far-fetched, and I was overruled. For instance, do you remember when I was in the big double-deck bus trying to get that inebriated gang of roughnecks back to the mission; I was having a heap of trouble getting them anywhere. My gag men insisted Continued on page 97