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mental strain. But here it’s different. Hal Roach, Jr., does the producing and Harve Foster he directs and they bring the scripts in and they’re in pretty good shape. All I have to do is memo¬ rize the lines and I’m not so sharp at it. “But it’s them hot lights and all that standin’ around that gets me. We’re shootin’ in color so they gotta light the place up like it was the third degree and by five in the afternoon I tell ya I’m shot. We figured to make only 26 films, but just this morning they tell me we’re set for 13 more and I should bust my head against a wall or some¬ thing.” The show’s supporting cast includes the veteran Jimmy Conlin as Charley the Waiter, and Alan Reed, the Pas- quale of the old Luigi show, as Finne¬ gan. Miss Duffy, the role originated by Gardner’s former wife, Shirley Booth, is being played by Pattee Chapman, whom Gardner found behind the counter of a Beverly Hills ice cream shop. I.«ave Me Face It Duffy’s Tavern was born back in 1939 when Gardner, who talks like Archie but is a good deal smarter, was producing shows for an advertising agency. He had planned a show de¬ signed to contrast the cultural side of New York with the seamy side and had set Deems Taylor as the protago¬ nist for culture. When he listened to the playback of Taylor’s audition rec¬ ord, for which Gardner himself had cued Taylor’s lines, he suddenly real¬ ized that his own voice was just the one he had been looking for to play the other side of the coin. “That,” he says gloomily, “is what comes of bein’ born in Astoria.” Having thus successfully auditioned on Gardner’s behalf, Taylor dropped out and Duffy’s Tavern came into be¬ ing. It went on the air in 1940 and en¬ joyed a run of 12 years. Three years ago Gardner mov^ to Puerto Rico and taped the show from there. He was widely criticized for the move on the grounds that he was ducking the income tax and the show’s popularity fell off to the point where it was dropped. “So we took the two kids and moved to Spain,” he says. “I was gonna re¬ tire. But them dukes kept gettin’ all the good tables in the restaurants and like I said there was nobody to talk shop with.” He and his second wife, the former Simone Hegeman, now live on a Bev¬ erly Hills hillside in an Early Amer¬ ican home with their two children, Ed, Jr., 11, and Steve, 6. A tall, rangy man with a face best described as a kindly mug, Gardner swims, plays a pretty good game of tennis, is an avid sports fan and a heavy reader. But he’s, almost resigned to being Archie for the rest of his life. “I’m enough of a ham to want to stay in the swim,” he says, “and today all the swimmin’ is bein’ done in TV.” SBigram-Distillefs Corporation, Now York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65% Grain Neutral Spirits. 21