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MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1955.
What 10,000 nights* have taught me
P. HERBERT was talking to me about Sir Malcolm Sargent, the conductor. 'When Burgent walks to the rostrum at a concert and raises his baton and leads the orchestra into Beethoven's Fifth Sym- phony, you don't turn your back because you have heard it all before.'
"Well, same with us. Always remember what A, P. Herbert said, because that is what 10.000 nights taught me that people like to know what they remember what made them happy
*You see if anyone Bays to e at the end of the 10.009th Bud, give UN tonight ข่าวพ some of the stuff you did at ahow No. 1 probably reply.
You've has seen
There difference
much
I
be can't because after all there are only eight variation on any abution in comedy and we've done them all
"With the Gang our accret is that we would be welcome any home in the country--and we'd be at home in the kitchen. the drawing-room, or the bald room We've made trends with cur audiences-not by appearing on television and going into their points, but by playing in the theatre and making them Come to see us.
"But ask me personally what i have learned out of life- 10.000 nights-and
CONTENTMENT
[} say
BOXER
B
UD FLANAGAN paused for a minute in front of his minke
up mirror at the Victoria Palace, sketched a line over his eye- brows, and retraced his thoughsta to friends and contentment,
M
The man who used to drive a London taxi and, when things were bad, even tried his luck is boxer ("Canvas backed Conen they called him now lives the asûred Bar's life with a flat in towns and a house in the country.
Like other stars-Danny Kaye and the rest-he is courted by society invited by the snobe who like to be able to say: "We had Bud or Danny round for drinks the other night."
Flanagan receives the invia tion But unlike so many of the others, he dealigns them. politely. It is not aloofness-
just common sense.
"Hke my friends to be the people who would want to know me if I were still plain Robert this real name). Winthrop "That is what counts.
That
and being contented " he said.
MONEY
W
1/
Kone
HEN Flanagan goes home he relaxes things badly-and in the past things
Will
have
by BUD FLANAGAN
often did go badly-1 can put my head on my wlte's shoulder Kidd let it all come out. There is no stresa at home.
When 1 married my wife Ann 31 years ago and that's a lot of years in show business I had to borrow my next week's pay, £7 109., to get married on. And we were content.
ד יי
like to live better than £7 105, a week now (his salary La estimated at around £600 a week), "but I don't.. may that money doesn't worry me. Of course I want money.
"But I refuse to do outside work televizion or radio or films or gramophone records. What's the pulat 7
"I'd earn nothing more out of it. It would all go on taxes. Where's the sense in that P
"Now I have my house that I've just bought on the river and
wife has which my decorated, she has decorted We're so many homes for us. always moving... And during the day I can relax there. Fishing.
"I go racing of course-we Lil do-that's where some of our money goes. But all the gang known how to relax.
Fish.
"The
others don't Knoxle plays golt. Naughton-- he goes off to Worthing or sits Nervo-he on Epsom Downs.
dashes around in fast cars at 120 miles an hour,
And Oold-
IN AN INTERVIEW
he paints. Not artistic stuД- he paints walls. Tha! used to be fils trade.
from
And when we get AWAY
the theatre
have ww learned not to see too much of One Another. That would be like eating chicken for lunch every day. When we meet we have fun. That's how we keep going through the monotony of a two year run.
LEGEND
AUN.
+
There are
IL
legends about the way they take thair fun. It was in Nottingham for was it Birmingham docan't matter now) that they pretended they were past office Inspectors and had the position of a new letter-box moved.
They nail the shoes of other attista to the floor. They raised the floorboards in a comedian's room and put down a couple of hundred alarm clocks, all set to go off at different times, because the unfortunate man asked to be wakened at a special time.
Then they nailed the oor And the elęcka down again.
night went off through the keeping the comic from sleep.
'FRUITY'
HE stories multiply
・We still Said Bud
du that of course but it isn't talked about so much
now. And although we hav
for 10.000 been together now bighia-that's what, 23 yearu?-- we still play jokes on one another and get away with it.
"We know our on-stage humour is based on comestle Bituations
and is rich-ripe-fruity.
I know what I want to do and what I can do. I'm not pining to act Shakespeare. That's what life has taught me. Don' pine.
don't understand Bhakespeare anyway.
"I do know-because I have learned it the hard way--that if my trousers fall down on the stage and that docan't get a laugh then I had better not try that again.
you Bro acting Shakespeare and it dosen't go down
don't well you
get
"But
another chaned.
There have
Весд
other
Bud
great clowns with the warmth In popular appeal of a Flanagan. There was Sld Field -but he died when he was 45 seveb Weat End after just
WDA
There yours.
Tommy Handley, who was 4 year in broadcasting and then died at 55 after Binding real Come during the war years only.
FATE
H
others
OW
does Flanagan
at 68 stay the phoe than those
Is stamina - or
ustuteness -- or the fact that be gave up drinking spirits seven years ago "because I fell I wer slowing down"?
But Flanagan cuta chrough
Just all these explanations:
fate. The day dear old Sid Field as born it was decided when he would die.
"I know that during the day I may be sick and acho-but when I get on stare at night and see that audience, they take out those patna and that ache'
A TEAM
T
HE future ? "I know I'm not the last ol the clowns, «Of course not. There may not be another Crazy dang. Theres can't be because I don't think another Ave men could get together and and work without thinking worrying about who la the star. We are a team that works for one another.
"And the way the word stat is abused today. Why, anyone on TV, any girl who washes dishes one day and appears an a stage the next, is aniled a star. and we don't want any of that
"But there WILL be another Bud Planagan-just the same na there will be another Bid Pield And that is what 10000 nighte have taught me as well..
London Express Service
The Methodists Win
Their Points On Divorce?
N
astonishing new de-
Avelopment in the rela-
tions between the Church of England and the free churches has taken place recently,
YES, THEY SAY, THERE CAN
BE
A SECOND MARRIAGE IN CHURCH
by Charles Wintour
But one question which many Baptists and Methodists
The union of the Church of
"We take this position. England with
We British the
must leave it to the discretion of the Methodist Church is now being be asking is: Will the Church of minister.
What he is supposed actively explored. The Bishop of London has said it could lead England seek to impose a more to do is inquire into the circum to the "complete assimilation of rigorist attitude towards the re- stances of any particular appli- the two bodies." Ultimately, no marringe of divorced persons in cation.... There is no rule.
those churches seeks "unity"?
doubt the other free churches could be brought in, too.
11 with which
GUILTY PARTY
1
Again, it is quite possible for The Methodists and the a Baptist minister to marry The Methodist conference, at Baptists take a very different guilty party in church, 1La meeting in Manchester, view. agrcod to authorise dele-
and quite a well-known film actress, came back to this country in 1949 with the aim of re-marrying in Bow Parish Church, where her grandfather had worshipped.
In the event Angela Lansbury proferred to be married in St, gington, under the aegis of the Columba's Church House, Ken- Church of Scotland.
EMLYN WILLIAMS
ASKS
For Me?
Which Way
Way For
By DEREK MONSEY
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PE
PEN
presenting 'THE HORSE-TAIL HEROINE
THE GIRL with the pout and the horse's tot! Is Brigitte Bardot. The with the man wary look is Dirk Bogarde, į They will be
to
вечет together In a British film, "Doctor At Sen." follow-up "Doctor in the House."
It is the first British film for! 20 year old :Miss Bardot
from Paris. It shouldn't
be
her last
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lips, looks his age of 50 in the face, and defies the call of greatness. The call, or the challenge. As Welsh as Merlin and a considerable wizard too, he stays remote, enjoys being something of an enigma, and defies analysis,
He is no longer the boy wonder from the Welsh orchestra; 1.15, News, weather ro valleys. But he is still the prodigy. It is easy for 19 Muse for you: 1.3 Relay Emlyn Williams to remain a prodigy; he has had enough Radio Hongkong programmes; 2.20, practice. To take the leap ahead into the challenging variety: 3 The screeni prosents: dark requires a plan.
•
There'd still
"I don't have 4 plan," he probably be speechless by the says, the slow, precise lilt in his time I came off.
rising with controlled be no one to talk to, Because she had been through voice
"I never the divorce courts in America 'hostility to the idea,
"But there are compensations she was refused permission to had a plan. Things just happen. It is a wonderful experience
Like Dickens,
every night here. A lot of the re-marry in the parish church.
The same · with Dylan, audience come in expecting the The Rev. A. E. Clipson, Thomas Growing Up I never worst. Dylan Thomas, Intellee- to be done in tual. Obscure poetry. And ther Superintendent of the White intended t
the
starts to get them chapel Methodist Mission, then Loxion. But here it is. spoke up. He said that he would "I haven't written a play for la marry the couple, if asked to
two OVOT
Someone Williams wins. years,
In a plain "The Baptist Union does not do so and provided the chair- Walling that was. I'm not blue suit, 'aliting on a dining- forbid ministers to marry people man of his church district had waiting one now. I just haven't room chair in the centre of an Doctrine on marriage is one who have been through the no objection.
got an idea that seems worth empty stage, he tells the odd, This Is no idealist scheme of the fundamental aspects of divorce courts... I myself
while. I don't mean that I'm wanderingly funny Thomas dreamed up by a small group of any religious creed. And tho have married people who have "If there had been no serious waiting to write the great stories for two and a half hours, eleries. Tho representatives of current attitude of the Church been Innocent panties In misconduct," he was reported to drama of the day. I'm not the It la a brilliant. magnificent the Church of England, in the of England, as represented by divorce."
have said, "and the divorce 13
sort of person to do that. Just performance. official talks that are to begin the Archbishop
generaliy of Canterbury
acceptable, I am something I think worth doing. shortly, will be the Archbishop is that divorced people should
SO LITTLE. TIME prepared to perform the cere-Porhaps I'll get an idea while of Canterbury and the Arch- not be re-married in church,
mony."
"Some people come round," I'm on holiday."
mock-end blebop of York.
He paused: "Perhaps I won't." Williams told me, Ha alta upright, with some mock-resigned, "and say, 'What really wonderful remembered thing of the marbled watchful- we thought ness of a Roman Emperor, done was the way you into a bust, But without the it all: Do you like a better than Laurel wreath..
Acting?!!! "I'd like to go to Stratford He sippet his wine, looked and play. in Shakespeare. I'd enigmatic, said "Other people What will be discussed? One
The talks between the is that there should suggestion
two like to do a new play someone expect me to go about looking archbishops and the Methodists
else, had, written.
and talking like Charles Dick- be D system ot "parallel
Tho
They ate of great Importance, ·
ens. I hate Victoriana. -LONELY bishoprics. In each district the
It therefore allows a minister And if convinced that the archblahops are already under
seem to expect an actor to Church of England would have
from a considerable "It gets very lonely doing a round all the time wrapped up bishop, the Methodists would into the circumstances and who maintain a Christian standard ecction within the Church of one-man show When I was in his part. Yet they don't ex- have a bishop and 'tho Con-
nels in consultation with the of
to be less marriage "should" marry England
Intolerant doing Dickens at the Duchess it pect a paintor to walk the gregationallats would have
chairman of his district, to divorced people.
about divorce.
was terrible. You have to go streets in his latest canvas. bishop.
you re-marry divorced people in a
up to your dressing-room In "What was that drink
•Of course,
Will the Methodists now, use that awful life lift and when gave mo? Two-thirds_gin," a Baptist ministers Methodist church.
are free to make their own their, vast, influence In urging you arrive, you are right away third Vodka, a dash of French? This sensible. and tolerant decision on this point. But there the archbishops to adopt their from the theatre and all alone. You've set me on the down- "Consecration," its sald, viewpoint allows a minister to can be no doubt that they are own understanding of the And: there were the ghosts ward path.” "would be performed by a re-marry even a guilty party in encouraged to give comfort to Scriptures on this point?.
androm 1935, when I was inst Who is going to set Emlyn Bishop of the Anglican Church chinchi
the repentant..
The Church of England would there in Night Must Fall. Dear Williams on the upward one? The spilt between the Church indeed be indebted to the May Whitty and Basil Radford. It is melt a lie way for a
man with his talents, both of England view of re-marriage Methodials it, in the marriage Both dead, The full significance of this The Baptists are, if anything, and the Methodist view was of the Anglican and the thought this time I might playwright and actor, to reach such a litle révolutionary proposal · Is still oven · more tolerant, Dr.
shown up in most Methodist Churches, the res get a few rinds who aren't rentace. It lo
Before ha 14:50. Lord, obscure. No doubt the sponsora Townley
mintater
of dramatic light.
marriage of divorced people, working to come in and sit Ime"
mey," he said, within church. became the ac- around Backstage for a few of union
still groping Bloomsbury Central Church and aro towards a formula for settled President of the Bootie World Angela Lambury, grand- cepled custom of the Church of gilinews a week. But they'd Dickens to Australls,” i
I hope he woo/? fave nothing; to do - and would ment.
Alliance, said recently:
daughter of George Lansbury, England.
Its behalf,
which
For the Baptist Council pass gation to carry on the talks on The Methodist Church, while ed a resolution in 1951
upholding the sanctity of mar says, that a minister: ringe, recognises that there are certain marriages which break it assured of true repentance for whatever sin may have down and that the law of the
been committed; land permits divorce.
REVOLUTIONARY
or one of the other historieni
Episcopal churches."
who has made careful inquirios
DISCRETION
1
2 couple are determined to pressuTE.
once
A DEBT
go
Varioty calls
tho tune popular
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