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...students here were in one place or another. Gas chambers and Crematoriums are something more than pictures from Life magazine. Some of the Czechs feel a little helpless that they had to throw in their lot with Russia. The Bohanes I mentioned in the first sentence is no gag name. He's a Socialist who doesn't like the idea of any Russian control here, but like so many Czechs he hates the Germans more than he hates the Russians...
...California is "Let There Be Light." Twenty years ago a campus gag was: Question: What is the difference between God and the University of California...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
...egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy he has only a sneer: "Anybody with the price of a joke-book can write a gag, but only the best can write character. Character is gonna get people addicted to this show, and character is gonna keep Sy in convertibles...
...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...