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According to Michael G. Yamin '53, chairman of the Smoker Committee, Arlene Francis and Al Capp may still appear although prior commitments may keep them away. The Smoker's roster, however, includes many professional entertainers from Boston and New York...
...Capp, creater of L'il Abner, the Schmoo, the Kigmy, and other comic strip prodigies, may appear at the Freshman Smoker tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre...
...crowded schedule made it impossible for Capp, who highlighted a Smoker two years ago, to be more definite when he was contacted yesterday. Another big name still on the tentative list is that of Ariene Francis...
...comedy is based on man's delight in man's inhumanity to man" wrote Capp. "I have made 40 million people laugh more or less every day for 16 years (on that formula)." The only way to top this was to carry man's inhumanity to man "to its ultimate absurdity-namely the inhumanity of men other men have been inhuman to," the cruelly of the victim who victimizes somebody else. People who laugh at this are not "heartless wretches," wrote Capp, but "normal human beings, full of self-doubt . . . full of a desperate need...
...same way with love. Observed Capp: "No lover is anything but disappointed, since the greatest of all disappointments is the final triumphant possession of the love one has dreamt of having. It's never as wonderful as your dreams . .. No confused, despondent lover ever saw a Chaplin picture who wasn't cheered up ... We knew that no girl would ever want him, and that emphasized the fact that some girl would or did want us . . ." Capp has improved on the old master: "I try to make a disappointed lover feel better by having Li'l Abner never...