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To Make You Laugh! Some of the best weeping on TV occurs not on daytime soap operas, as you might sus¬ pect, but on the Monday night Caesar's Hour over NBC. It’s done by the lovely Nanette Fabray, and since she goes through the facial calisthenics in company with Sid Caesar, the weeping is strictly for laughs. “I may be corrected on this by some view¬ ers,” Nan says, “but I don’t think I ever cried for comedy before. The script for one show we did this year called for me simply to become upset when I learned, over the phone, that Sid was sick. And then here’s what happened. I started to make a face to simulate crying. Sid spotted the possibilities and said, ‘That’s fine—let’s build on that.’ And boy, did we build!” Nan says her crying bit calls for something like hiccuping or singing staccato notes. “It makes me sick at my stomach because I must press from my diaphragm to make it look right,” she said. She has cried on three or four Caesar shows so far, but plans to bypass the routine for awhile so that viewers won’t tire of it. Actually, Nan does not shed real tears when she cries for laughs. She’s just a good actress who can simulate weeping through a series of facial contortions. She doesn’t even think of anything sad to make her weep. Or, to reverse the old song title, she’s crying on the outside but laughing on the inside. Generally, she starts with a pretty smile. Then, when she hears some bad news (that Sid is ill, for example) or thinks she has done something terrible (such as losing an expensive diamond ring), she starts the weeping. At last, happily, she learns that things are not as bad as they seem. Grad¬ ually her sniffling stops and, little by lovely little, her face lights up once more.