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Sharp-tongued Arnold needles Uncle Miltie, but only on camera No Top Banana—Bui Slick A reasonable and gentle party, Ar¬ nold manages to carry on his own press relations; that is, he does' not employ a press agent, possibly on the assumption that the trade is aware of his talents and the publicity he’d get with the general public couldn’t do him much good, because he’s no top banana. Evidence of his triumphant approach to a press interview is the fact that his wife is a former feature writer for a national magazine who turned up at the Stang abode for an interview and was sufficiently charmed by the lad to marry him. They now have two children, Deborah and David, and a sad-faced Basset hound, a dog that looks as underprivileged as the characters Arnold portrays. I Berle talks, Stang listens: off camera, * there's never a doubt who has last word. sick,” Arnold has said, “then when we put the show on, people connected with it have asked me if I’ve re¬ written the lines because they’ve come over so funny. I never rewrote a line. They were funny because Milton is such a master at setting them up.” Stang, as does everyone else, gives Goodman Ace a great deal of the credit for the large improvement in the Berle show. “Berle has had a lot of fine writers before, but they just never knew how to say no to Milton. He’s a power,” says Arnold, “But Goody stands right up to Milton when he wants a line to stay in.” An interesting about-face in the Berle-Stang relationship, takes place during the hours when the show isn’t on the air. At rehearsals, Arnold be¬ comes merely another of the hired hands and therefore fair game for one of Berle’s celebrated chewing-outs. A very confident, forthright and af¬ fable little guy, Arnold is aware of the limitations of being an odd-shaped half-pint with glasses. He knows he’ll never become as big as the Berles, Morgans and Cantors he has comple¬ mented so well. As a first-rate char¬ acter player he knows there’ll always be enough demand for his services to maintain his present easy livin’.