Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-05 | Page 9 | Mr. Fields' Favorite Comic Has Big Noe, Juggles

MR. FIELDS' FAVORITE COMIC .HAS BIG NOSE, JUGGLES 1 I J fJt is' -el ' ) A JJ ,:Xv.,- ) lxexe.ll i in Ml I 'ill sMatssMeaaaaaeeeaeaesaetitMriiaflrfl ilEiVsvJ By PAI L HARRIHOtt HOLLYWOOD, Jan. a The W. C. Field plctur goea on and on, through untold mile of celluloid and ondleaa aerie of gag conference. confer-ence. It aeema that the man with the noae haa dug himself Into a Job for th winter. I went down to Universal one afternoon aft-ernoon and found Mr. Fielda, wearing wear-ing a huge falae mustache and Teddy Roosevelt teeth, dandling a ventrlloqutot'e dummy on one knee and aaying, "I can't guaaa that one. Oliver. Tell me why la a cat Ull like a long Journey?" And Oliver, vialbly prompted by Mr. Fielda, would shoot back. "Because "Be-cause It'a frr to the end!" The following day I visited the aet and noted aome progress. Mr. Field waa chuckling. "Ha-ha-ha 'because It'a fur to tha end!' Oliver, you're a klller-diller If ever there waa one!" Verr-a Funny Soma time later I strolled In Jutt In tim t hear a brand new conundrum. conun-drum. Mr. Fielda was atllt aittlng on the circus ballyhoo platform and still holding Oliver. But he waa asking, "All right, what doea look moat like a cat looking out of a window?" And Oliver reaponded, "Another cat looking In!" "Getting right along, aren't you?" I observed aarcaatlcally to a man on the eeL "Pretty good," he admitted. "We're making aome acenea over because the crowd of people atand-Ing atand-Ing in front of Bill haa been changed from a bunch of deadpana io an audience of ordinary people. The our pusses wouldn't have laughed even if the Jokea had been funny, ao it' funnier to have normal peo-Dle peo-Dle not crackine a smile asses .iHnaekatfkujuioeaMBBatsiMMasiatu!iab.Mij Left to right: Oliver and Field for a few more yeara. She wants to write, too, and haa batted out a few atoriea. She also want to act, haa had aeven screen testa, parte in aeveral aev-eral pirturea and Oarar Hammer-atein'e Hammer-atein'e promise of a Job any time she want to go to New York. Along in there somewhere aha won a per fect leg contest. Mis McCaffrey also hu found time to work in a local little theater and to become a wife, mother and a divorcee. But I acem to have atrayed from the Fields picture. Miss McCaffrey confirmed the alatement that Fields never aaya the aame thing twice, even when a acene la done 25 timee. "You aee, Fielda la auppoaed to be an old style ciacu manager who thinka he can double for anybody in ihe ahow. Ho when Bergen geta the hiccough and can't go on, Bill diga thia dummy out of a trunk and trie to put on the act. It' pathetic. There's a lot of pathos in this picture. pic-ture. Whtn Ftilda' wife falls from a trapeze and diet it'll tear your heart out. "Nobody can hurry old Bill any. He any Juat exactly what he wanta to aay. and he never aaya th same thing twice. That make It kind of tough aometimea, becaua it's hard to match up th ahots. But he never " "Never?" "Never. Don't take my word for It. Ask tha script girl." (oats a Lunch . I took th script girl to lunch. She is th prettiest script girl In - Hollywood and her name ia Helen McCaffrey. She waa the San Diego women'a golf champion at 13 and directed and played lead in high achool play there before ahe came to movietown, at 17, to be an actreaa. When ah had worked two days In a comedy the regular script girl quit and tha director aaked Miat McCaffrey to take the Job. Director fight for her services How. Bh hat worktd with a dozen of the beat and haa been on every picture mad by Jamea Whale. They aay that Whale looks at Miss McCaffrey Mc-Caffrey after each take. If ahe frowna, he aaya, "Try it again," and If ah emiles, he saya "okay!" She would like to direct pictures, but doubt that the will get a chance