TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

Carney as his foil — perhaps coming up with some brand-new characterizations. Sometimes he may take over a Dorsey baton to lead the boys in something of his own. "Whatever he does, it will be in good taste," everyone tells you. "He always remembers that his are 'family shows,' from the standpoint of the time when they go on the air, and also because they appeal to youngsters as well as grownups." The Gleason gang wouldn't mind a bit if he went back next year to a theater like the Paramount, even with its six-aday, sixteen-hours-in-the-theater grind of performances. The continuous audiences, but always different, stimulated Jackie. "We put five additional minutes into our sketch before the two weeks were finished," Audrey says. "Jackie came up with some marvelous ad-fibbing. There was one real cute segment we later added to the TV show. Jackie really had himself a ball for the whole two weeks, and he loved it." It was Audrey's sister Jayne who again made one of her classic remarks when she went backstage at the Paramount to visit. The corridors and dressing rooms back there are rather stark and bare, somewhat "institutional" looking, in contrast to the opulence of the lobbies and the theater auditorium. Jayne took one look around, at the clowning Gleason and the rest of the cast and the other people involved in the stage show, all laughing and shouting and carrying on over something Jackie had just been saying and doing. "This looks like a psycho ward at Bellevue," she said, "and you look exactly like a bunch of ambulatory patients!" "She was right," Jackie admits. "We saw ourselves later in a kinescope taken during a rehearsal and that was a psycho ward, all right. M-m-m, boy!" Now Jackie is thinking about building a Television City in the New York area, for filming "The Honeymooners" and other shows. Maybe right in the middle of New York City. "If he wants to, he will," the cast says, when you mention it. "Right in the heart of Times Square, if that's where he wants it. If Jackie sets his heart on doing anything, he gets it done." As Jackie himself would say, "M-m-m, boy! That would be a dan-dan-dandy set-up!" A Laugh in Time (Continued from page 67) toward the floor. There I was — young, budding, ambitious Art Linkletter — on my hands and knees on the floor reading mortuary advertising copy! The humor of the situation just about killed me. No longer able to restain myself, I started laughing — that's right, smack in the middle of my commercial. "Anybody can tell you, the middle of a mortuary commercial is no place to laugh. And my friend, the sound engineer, was no help at all! I looked up to find him laughing so hard he couldn't sit in his chair. "The commercial ended with me flat on my back, the microphone resting on my chest." Yes, it was a wild night for Art, the end of his first sponsor. But not the end of his career — not at all. It was only the beginning, for it was this ability of Art's — being able to laugh at life's unexpected adventures— that proved so successful for him in later years with his audience participation shows. With these shows, the unexpected always happens, too. Art has proven, it's the way you react to these situations that is important. ...are you really lovely to love? llow confident you feel! There's an air of freshness about you always when you use Fresh Cream Deodorant. Underarms are dry . . . and they stay dry. No worry about stains that spoil clothes. No offensive odor. Fresh contains the most effective perspiration-checking ingredient now known to science. You'll love using Fresh, too. It's a pure white cream, with a soft, subtle scent. And Fresh has a fluffy, whipped-cream texture . . . never sticky or greasy. So kind to your skin, too. For an air of freshness, use Fresh Cream Deodorant every day — be sure you are lovely to love, always. pRESH iS a registered trademark of Pharma-Craft Corporation. Also manufactured and distributed in Canada a" F^ESr-fgirl is always lovely to love ■p