Show Gay Cay Scene Clipped I I S By DeMille I By gy BOBBIN ROBBIN COONS I HOLLYWOOD Th P-Th There e wasa was k a 8 a choice scene at the finale of Reap the Wild Wind Unfortunately Unfortunately Unfortunately for the gaiety of nations it was clipped after the final pre- pre view In the typical C. C B. B de Mille climax everything had happened on that tossed storm-tossed boat deckand deck deck deck- band and 8 d everything humanly conceivable conceivable conceive able e including an undersea battle with ith a giant squid already had happened in the ample footage went that went before The deck was strewn with j corpses like a stage at the final curtain of Hamlet The squid had another There still was anI another another an- an I other buried in the wreckage of a ship ship below As they were pulling up the surviving sea deep-sea diver a giant wave had broken over the ship After all the carnage and fierce manifestations of nature j the harassed Florida heroine Pau- Pau Paulette Paulette hette lette Goddard knelt beside a aI I corpse and gallantly assumed her responsibility In an accent more moret t South Brooklyn than southern Paulette said Its all mah doin Join Probably because it had a hunch that the thing was all De Milles Mille's doing or because it couldn't bear to have Paulette's pretty shoulders so weighted with guilt the audience audience audi- audi ence howled Mr de Mille who is not noted for or his sense of humor unhappily j took up his shears Tip for reluctant scholars Before a jammed classroom atU at atU U UCLA C L A Professor Edgar Bergen wound up his seminar on comedy writing rUing for the air the first such I series fieries on humor His closing remark remark remark re- re mark You never know what a sense of humor will do for you Take me for instance The Thc only reason I l didn't flunk in grammar school Iwas was because the teacher liked my I ventriloquism act I Jack Carson as was was having his big moment in The Hard Way He was dying He was giving it all the he had Vincent Sherman the j director was keeping the environs environs' quiet during rehearsals very quiet In the midst of the hush there appeared on the sidelines two solemn solemn solemn sol- sol distinguished looking gentle- gentle men They hovered silently Vincent Vincent Vin Vin- Vincent cent Sherman struck by their distinction distinction distinction dis dis- dis- dis halted proceedings and inquired if there were anything he could do for them There was The pair advanced t on th the dying ying Carson took out a tape measure and turned the expiring expiring expiring ex- ex body over Meticulously I they measured the breadth of the Carson beam took notes and turned the body back Thank you they said We Ve needed it for ornaments Mr Carson Carson Carson Car- Car I son will wear in the se- se sequence quence The solemn pair withdrew consulting con- con their notes Vincent Sherman Sherman Sher- Sher man mopped his brow Mr CarBon Carson Carson Car- Car son Bon continued with his interrupted t death 1 |