Show t j 4 6 q d ryr I w lAw COLBERT KNOWS HER ONIONS Colbert takes her comedy with a graIn grata of good gooi sens e and follows her own Ideas d l when it comes to acting So far farshe farshe she he has topnotch performances s to her credit In drama and aud comedy comedy comedy com com- edy to be funny on the screen you yon have to be he unfunny 1 H NO FLYING TRAPE E Colbert Demonstrates Comedy Technique By ERSKINE JOHNSON I HOLLYWOOD Claudette Claudette Colbert Colbert Col CoY bert tho the lady bidy who leaps tram from rom comedy to dr drama ma and back again with tho the ease case of the daring darf g young young- man on the flying trapeze almost fell feU ell off oft a m. couch in her living room the he other days day It w was s her own fault Don ault Don Ameche wasn't there thereto to o hold her yb Orn we were to blame We were getting the lowdown on her comedy technique ique and to prove a 8 point she he went Into a alcene scene icene from her new movie Wife In Sn which she flirts with a preoccupied Ameche She flung herself on the couch lifted If ted herself upon on elbow and fluttered Her lier eyelashes With It might have been good But In the Colbert living room the balance was waa wrong or something She Sho started to fall faU and before regaining a 8 like lady position looked like Uke a test teat pilot coming out of an outside loop That sh she laughed Is what 1 X mean by broad comedy The sc secret zet of being funny on oh onUte he Ute screen Claudette Colbert confessed confessed con- con fe ed is 13 not to be funny at all aU Comedy she ho said laId 1 hI fa much hard hard- er er to do th than n he heavy vy drama dismal has more pitfalls yet receives less pral praise than a s dramatic perform performance ance She was the mo most moat t surprised person in town she said when they hand handed d h her r an Oscar an-Oscar O Oscar H ar for fora or a 8 corned comedy It Happened O One B Night t for Writers But don't dont forget the tha screen writers writ writers writ writ- ers era says Claudette They should be the people in t the e business b They're the boys and girls who do the work worle Whenever a n producer asks me to do a picture and outlines the story atory my first que question is write Jt St Luckily she has had directors director who appreciated her tier views on scripts always always' let me doIt doit do doit it my own way Thu Tho only director director tor who ever showed me exactly how to play a scene was Ernst jt Hes He's one of the funniest men In Hollywood I Z had to to sit on ort Gary Coopers Cooper's lap and t feed ed him onions onion which he hated Lubitsch said Look Iv I v l how you how set is hi done He sat sat on Garys Gary's lap Jap and showed me what to do aa as I only can carl carldo cando cando do it I was hysterical I copied a Lubitsch exactly and It was funny She Sho Wont Won't Gamble Gambia Most big Hollywood stars tars have I formed their own independent film filmmaking filmmaking making companies but she has hM no such plans I When I came into this b business ln S SI I I vowed that I would always work for tor someone never for tor myself Im I'm not a good gambl gambler r. r Golf Golt she aha admitted probably will leave eave her a nervous wreck She plays play a a. good game of tennis mecan she me can ski and she's she a whiz at archery arch uch- ery ery But golf 1 I 1 cant can't figure out Tm rm always hitting the ground Instead in instead in- in stead of the ball bell And when I do hit the ball banI I never know where its it's going Ive I've hit my teacher in the stomach five times Jack Benny saw jaw me taking a 8 leMon Leeson one day ay walked over to the tha teacher and whispered Young man this is dangerous You should take out a big life ute ini in insurance in- in i urance aurance policy |