European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 06, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Baby Monkey after nine hours in the world already has cynical expression. Third Arm Center is actually one of his legs other hidden by Man s hand. Mama and papa talk Over a name for their new child. Papa favors a distinguished name like Mortimer but can t convince mama of its merits. New arrival at the zoo photographs by edouard Renner birth of Monkey baby precipitates t juror Over the Choice of his name there was much ado in the Monkey Cage. Mister and missus had become mama and papa the proud parents of a nine ounce bouncing baby boy Monkey with dark hair and Brown eyes. Mother and child were doing Well until papa came along. Papa has rather Sec ideas about naming offspring ideas that mama did t agree with at All. After a Long heated argument they decided to consult the other residents of the zoo. The list finally narrowed Down to two alternatives with papa holding out for Mortimer and mama plumping for Elmer. Papa who had friends on the outside swung the vote with a Bunch of profitably distributed bananas. Laughter at Sunset and Vine Hollywood n this curious land of wonder Ful nonsense has be come an important anywhere else in the United states a laugh is just around produced by the Throat and lungs to indicate merriment or scorn. Today in Hollywood it is that and More. Actually it is Nowan indispensable part of the town s social and economic in the movie business starts with the girls who retype the fumbling words of the Sce Nario writers. There is a differ ence in the income of the girls and the writers. The writers make More Money. Though they Are at the Bottom of the More intimate Section of the movie business and of considerably less importance a than say a set Carpenter they Are a social Cut above the typists so the typists laugh at what Ever they say which helps the morale of the broken Down Roadway playwrights and sad dle sore Magazine and newspaper Fellows who make up a Good percentage of the screen writers Guild. The writers in turn laugh a whatever the directors say be cause directors make about thousand. Dollars a week More than writers on the of them Are monotonous,.-. Dull Boring and generally pretty unfunny but let them get off one about the Farmer s daughter an the writer is Likely to plunge into a paroxysm of mirth. Next step up on this who laughs at whose joke ladder Are the producers. The directors Are Flung into helpless gasping Hys Teria by anything a producer say that goes beyond Good the producers who Are capable of sitting Stone faced for hours suddenly fall prey to bellowing and rib holding when an executive gets off a Dandy new a Chicken and a Road. The executives on the \ other hand laugh Only at what is said by the Heads of the studios eve though what the Heads of studios � say might result Only in being sent to bed without supper if said by the child of an executive. The laugh therefore is a Meas ured thing Here. The stenographer who would look coldly at a writer and say that Lousy after he finished a four thousand word description of what he said upon reaching the fifteenth Green at Bel air in two is a kid who is on her Way out As a stenographer. The write who might revile a director by saying i be heard that one be fore goes Back to the old news paper Job he openly Pines for but secretly wants no part of. And soon up the line of Parade. This laughter of course i usually on the hollow Side and is tied up with another local very delicate one of non listening. Hollywood is Breeding into the species a whole new sect a group called the you run across these non listeners every Day in bars at the lunch table at dinner parties. Usually it s the guests who Are the non listeners which in t confined to Hollywood but the Breed has reached an interesting biological Peak in its Hollywood cultivation. Take for example the fellow who was standing at a bar having a drink. A Friend burst into the room his Collar Askew his skin sports shirt rushed up to his Friend drank the fellow s drink took a deep breath and said Cletus nothing has Ever happened to anybody As terrible As it happened to me last night. My House caught on fir and burned to the ground with out a stitch of insurance. My wife jumped from the second Story window and broke her leg. The kids were rescued but contracted smallpox while standing on Thelan watching the fire. The fire alarm on the Corner broke Dowland the engines never showed up. With everybody in the Hospital came to work this morning and there was a a tote waiting telling me they weren t picking up my " at this Point the harried Man made the mistake of taking s breath which gave his Friend a Hance to get a word in. Trie Friend laughed inhaled and said if you think that s funny listen to this.". " if you want to delve deeper into this goes beyond that outlined above. The intelligentsia of the film Colony laugh at those less fortunate in mental capacities. Those less fortunate being generally Richer laugh at the a Businesslike Learned. In Structure there is also the curses his act Ono Mic Superior. Since this is contrary to the accepted practices his is a limited Field. He says terrible things that Are in Sharp contrast to the homage generally paid the Superior and because the whole idea is preposterous the Superior laughs. Then he who did the cursing turns with an aside and adds that s the greatest Man in the. World but Only if the Urser is having his weekly or biweekly Day for understatement. Sure there is some genuine laughter in Hollywood. Some of the funniest persons in the country work out Here and when they get laughs they re real spontaneous. Reactions to something amusing. But the rest of it seems to indicate an unstable society a Structure held together by . And if laughs Are holding things together it makes those Nice old cliches like Side splitting laughter burst her seams with laughing and died laughing sound like hypocrisies. Bob cons Dine
