Show HE KNOWS HOW HOTO TO TOMAKE MAKE AUDIENCE lAUGH Likes His Musical Play C He Came From Milwaukee Better Than Any BY SARI SAM SA BERNARDI BERNARD Know kno wh why I I do not am funn funny or why people at nt moI me mo I mal make crake e people laugh because I do doand doand doand and sa say things that strike them as funny fun tun- n That's a all 1 th there re Is to it ny except aalt avast a aast vast alt ast amount of ot vork ork o and some considerable con con- exercise of brain power It takes tak's as us much brain to be a comedian on the tho sta stags stage 6 as It does to be a a. dl dian I incan can toll within n. n minute after I sta stage e. e wh whether appear on th the ther I am cun going goIn goIng go- go In Ing to hit me the a audiences audience id lenco s funny bone Tho The same samo tack will not work on every audience nor nor w it III s tho h same sam s un brand of humor work on the same audience at different times I recall an instance W when hon he I was playing playIng play- play Ing Ine- the rich Mr r. r mer in The Girl From KaYs s that will wll Illustrate R I IA I. I this point It was In Providence Pro A more solemn bunch of faces I 1 ne never er from a funeral I never saw away a smile in the entire first ac oven on and earned I decided to give gle em em li act the tho old slap-bang slap style f for forthe in he heimer mer vve were not n acquaInted ac- ac evidently e these people omen the o with subtle brand of of ot German erm real mor purveys purveys Y 1 humor That's 17 I the what I did In tads tho second act act T I fail En all ll or o m self I 1 made the tho corned cornI corn corn- Lv broad as It possibly could be ed as is I caricatured the part part But I got gotI done from the first an and within audience five fhe the minutes they the were wore howling how Providence Pro has been ea easy for mo mf over vcr overs sInce the sincerity of the character It Is s mv present m musical play pIn He Came Camo In m my Milwaukee that makes him one vr m From f best I ha have havo ever had People of the who and what he Is the moment moment moment mo mo- knoW he comes on tho the stage stage eo IJ ment l Is sincere a a. real human an being W We c cdo e edo ho he not have to go into and ards yards do description Ascription of ot him tell the audience or of what h ho he Is s K going oln to do and sa say They all that from him know Sometimes I pia ph play to a certain section house sometimes sometime to one halt sometimes In the tho to the tho balcony oa cony I n nearly arl a al- al tr try to 10 plc Pick out t a n like likely looking ways subject et Ju lust Juat t as soon as I 1 come on tho the thone stage ne Good humor Is 19 so 80 contagious that there thero ore are few fow persons who can I resist its attack That Is another argument argument argument ar ar- for tho the necessity of ot sincerity In foolishness as well Voll as In serious actIng act- act Ing If It the funny tunny man is sincere h in his hie funniness if It he ie believes the part he heIs heIs heis Is playing is really funny funny apart apart from himself If It he believes the character Is lifelike and sincere why then the actor doesn't have such a n hard time getting his lils audience to think the same Bame way But If It the actor doubts all these things how can he mal make mako o that char- char actor seem anything but a EL caricature so exaggerated as to lose all semblance of ot a real roal man Burlesque of ot course is amusing amusing- and has hns thousands of devotees and es some might thing the popularity of burlesque to be argument against the necessity of ot sincerity But It Isn't Jve been beon through the mill Ive I've played In burlesque burlesque burlesque bur bur- lesque and In vaudeville and it has urs been my experience that even a o burlesque burlesque bur bur- ur even lesque must have a 6 foundation of ot sin sin- People will not laugh at the burlesque 0 of an Insincere character The original of the tho burlesque must bea be bea bea a real man or a real woman woman the situation situ sitU- atlon must bo be a real lifelike situation The fun that It fa brought out in burlesque burlesque burlesque bur bur- lesque Is an echo of the fun tun that the original scene or persons persona would have caused People could not appreciate burlesque unless they are familiar familar with the original origInal inal and the tho they cannot be bo familiar with tho the orl original unless that original was the real thing thInS Acting is a mental exertion just a is a laughing is Js There ma may seem Beem to bo be a a. alot alot lot of the purely physical element In both but this Is IB only the result of ot the mental menta activity And if it you OU dont don't act with your rains brain as aa well as with your mouth and hands ands and feet you'll not reach tho the thought of ot your our audience Yes Fes it requires some iome to be a fool on the stage |