Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-21 | Page 9 | Fields Berates 'Grifter' Clan

I I i Fields Berates Clan HOLLYWOOD Nov 21 IP W. IP-W. W. W C. C Fields mad as a wet vet hen atthe professional healers mouthpieces I and gangsters who've nicked his fortune set out to recoup it today in a picture entitled You Cant Can't Cheat an Honest Man His nose tomato red d from indignation indig indig- nation and nation and sunburn the sunburn the year 59 old oid comedian energetically retaliated retaIl retaIl- much in the style in which he once booted leather-diapered leather Baby Leroy across a set after the little nipper had dunked his watch in molasses Sand and thrown whipped cream in Ills his face fa e. e 1 lIe He Knows Know s the Breed bellowed W. W C. C I know the breed being something of ofa ofa ofa a myself He indicated his doctor bills in past years still caused twinges in his unstable iliac sacro-iliac although he is now doing his own training on a massage table and in an electrio electric electric elec elec- trio steam box with a thimbleful of sherry as his heaviest drink I dont don't like to say anything against gag writers said W. W C. C because they have to earn a living But Ive I've seen em get 1000 a week for clipping cUpping their jokes out of newspapers And when they didn't get the 1000 a week for a year after they were fired they sued and ond found some poor lawyer to handle their case as a nuisance Writes His lIis Own Just now happily Fields has no dealings with so-called so comedy constructionists constructionists constructionists con- con and their legal mouthpieces mouthpieces mouth mouth- pieces for he ditched the lot and wrote his own story for You Cant Can't Cheat an Honest Man He and ond Edgar Bergen burned the midnight oil weeks on end plotting a continuation on the screen of W. W Cs C.'s feud with Charlie Mc Mc- Carthy A dummy is like a child chUd Fields said If a comedians comedian's going to hold his own he has to get down on n the dummy or childs child's level and fight with him like I did with Baby Leroy