Tuesday, April 30, 1968
Majnena. N. Y. Obnerver 0
Gags Can't Silence Smothers Brothers
By Joan Crosby
NEA Entertainment Editor
New York-(NEA) — Tommy Smothers, as Adam, takes
a bite of the apple and a booming voice echoes _. from somewhere up there, "That's a nono."
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But the CBS censors also
thought the line was a no-no.
"They said it would offend
people in the Bible Belt."
Tommy reports. Tommy and
brother Dick argued, arid CBS
brought in a priest, a minister
and a rabbi to view the skit
and pass judgment. T h e y
thought the line w%s fine. The
censors, reluctantly, gave up
and so it was heard on T h e
Smothers Brothers C o m e d y
Houc.
Censorship, which goes ' on
. all the time, seldom emerges
from behind locked doors. The
major public battle in the past
was Jack Paar vs. NBC with a;
WC in there somewhere. But
the brothers Smothers are mad
„ enough, about the sniping and
sniping that has occurred on
their show to make censorship
a public isstie.
"We mean it.when we. say
we'll "quit" rather~ than '""" g(T
through another season of
this," Tommy said. "We're going to remain strog. I'm tired
find Dickie's
tired and all
this battling.is hurting our per- formances. If we quit, we
stand to be sue.d but if there is
a law suit, it -will be over censorship and I don't think CBS
/• will be.anxious for that."
Tommy admitted t h i n g s
have been better since they returned from a Christmas vacation. "They've brought a new
man in, John Kaye, and he's
younger. They've let a lot of
things by they didn't before
Christmas."
Mike Dann, the CBS programming chief, says, "The
Smothers win 99 per cent of
their points with us."
In the one per cent they
have lost was an exchange
during a Russian song. Dick
was raving about Russian ballet. Tom said how great it was.
Pick: "Bolshoi."
Tom: "No really, they're the
greatest."- _•.:...
"• Somehow it seemS less dangerous to morals than some of
the antics in films like "Never
on Sunday," which was telecast recently.
•
Another time Tommy was .
apologizing for one of' his mistakes:'"God knows I'm sorry,"
he said. "Name dropper,"
Dick said. By the time the
show got on the air, Tom's line
was, "The Deity knows I'm
sorry," and Dick's unchanged
line didn't get a laugh.
Pat Paulsen, • who does some
poHf ed^editorialsToirthe" show;~
had a~ line in one which listed
"white slavery, pornography
jokes are big with the brothers. Recently Tom made a
thumbs down gesture as he
was parising the government
and the censors objected to
that.
The hierarchw of censon
has the head man, Will i a m
Tankersley, vice preside n t,
Program Practices, located in
New York. Tankersley, offered
a chance to comment on his
' siile of the feud and to state
network standards, absolutely
refused to talk to the press.
Dann says there is no question the Smothers have "broken new frontiers in what can
be done. They do topical comedy and these are serious
times. It's harder to judge
what is tasteful. Sometimes
we're w r o n g and sometimes
they are.".
/
Tommy a d m i 11 e d . the:
brothers can make mistakes.
He wishes now he had been
stopped from doing a skit that,
was on the opening show this
season in which he played' a
young man on a date who got
the tablecloth stuck in his zipper.
Sometimes the brothers censor themselves. An interview
:inthe-SmothersPoll had Dick .talking to Negro actor-SoceyMitchell who, when asked his
name, said, "Charles White.
They used to call me Whitney
but that went out a few months
ago." When it got on the air,
the name had been changed to.
-"George .Wallace—not the one
in politics, the other one."
"We made that change^ The
first line hit too close. But we
had another interview
with
Scoey in which we wanted a
picture of George Wallace on
the wall. Scoey was going to
refer to his brother-in-law an
point to the picture. They"
wouldn't let us do that. So we
used a picture of Adam Clayton Powell. _
"In another skit, Le i g h
French made a reference to a
man cofing home and digging
his wife. They thought that to
dig your wife was dirty, which .
shows the kind of mind we
we have been dealing with." • *
Tommy thinks television is •
at least J.0-years behind- movies, the theater and printed
media in growing up. "If
things go well and other people and shows take stands, it
will take some of the pressure
ottos.'!-..
"They are doing some of the
best stuff on television," Mike
Dann says. "They must be doing something right."
They are not only making,
audiences laugh, and denting
Bonanza's ratings, but they
have proved that even censors
have a sense of humor.
Whenever the censors come
across-what they think—sa id
-double-entendre joke,- fthey. refer to if as. a,— joke, using a'
well - known Anglo - Saxonism.
"We decided to put the word in
one of our scripts and read it
at the first rehearsal."
SWEET ADELINES QUARTET. Entertaining
at special occasions in Massena are the Sweet
Adelines Quartet: Mrs. Carolyn Harkins,
tenor, Mrs. Hazel Jawan, lead, Barbara Wilkins, baritone, and Mrs. Betty Brady, bast.
Phones for Handicapped Described
Norwood —" "Telephone, serv- disastrous outbreaks of . V i o - the invocation Monday; fch«
ee-fbr -the handlcapped-Lwas !ence_ arid destruction in citi e s ooiHand raffle prizes w e r e
[described .by. New York Tele- ;uch as Detroit and Newark in on by Robert R. Haggett, een-._
phone "Company .'representative .967. Kiwanis,InternationaL has_ or was Joseph Hopsicker, ibne
Miriam Gray to the 27 mem-publicly repudiated such acts of guest Larry Gravelle
'and n a r c o t i c s . "
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bers of the Norwood Kiwanis civil disobedience, and has di-j::nt. •• "I was told I couldn't say
Hub present at. their Mond a y rected that local clubs initiate
those words. We had to substinight dinner meeting. •
programs to promote respect
tute robbery, murder arid
blackmail. Given a, choice, I'll
Itf commori with other clubs or the law and its agenci e s
'They did and, says Tommy,
pick pornography over murri Kiwanis International's New so that future outbreaks may be
"it is to the censors' credit
Y6rk District, Norwood Kiwan- averted.
der.".
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that they;laughed.", •
is Club will spotlight Law Day The Norwood club was i n LBJ a n d~ administrat i o n
at nsxlrweek'si nreethjgrv. ^
volved in similar activities dur, With.'May-1—proclaimed as ing -1967,- withithe-nextimeeting.
Law Day by Gov.Rockefeller, again slated to focus upon the
Kiwanis New^YSFk District problem and its solution.
By Esther Van Wagoner Tu%| someoneria -authority—I
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the issues to be quoted lat-|bags to be shipped September nated the entire month~ofrApri;
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Sealed envelopes, small ad: common "With Gov. ' RockefelA ''family food program" atJughly inflated prices*
ference?
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One
very
prominent
deledress
books, nail clippers. ler's proclamation, the Diswhich emphasized savings oh The papers state, that con- Apparently there are 2,000
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food as a camouflage to sell sumers were induced to sign reasons, but Mary Brooks, As- gate: Elly Peterson of Michi- combs, mailing size voice tapes trict's effort has been spurred
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food freezers at 600 per cent installment contracts by sales- sistant. Chairman, Republican gan, had a special objective. small vacuum packed tins oi by the numerous cases of law- * AUTO
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last year of-more than $10 mil-statements, that the food was one: "to get them steamed up ran for the Senate against Sen- shot holders^ pocket games throughout the nation during
ator
Philip
Hart,
has
a
cause
the past 3 years including the
deck of cards and so on.
lion by a' Queens County firm at "wholesale", or "discount" and all enthusiastic a b o u t
ancl its Subsidiaries, Attorney prices, was of "prime quality, campaigning for a GOP' vic-so basic it isn't easy to sell because it calls for personal efGeneral Lou-is J. Lefkowitz^ re- and the amount supplied would tory in Tfovember.'
fort at the local level with very
vealed , when he obtained an adequately* feed a family for. Some delegates frankly
say little glamour and few headorder in Supreme Court, New ;ix months. Once the consum^ "it!s great to meet our VIPs."
York_, County, barring \he_ firm er's interest was aroused, Nat- Others, __.mote studious, want lines. Mrs. Peterson, a former
assistant chairman of the Re
and its affiliated organizations pac's salesmetTwere trained to
publican National . Committee
from persistently
fraudulent make their "pitch" that the
and presently state chairman,
and misleading business prac- freezer was reasonably priced;
has started an invasion of the
tices.
was guaranteed for 25 years
cities' poor districts with "ac"This scheme is particular- and would pay for itself in savtion" centers where Republily pernicious since it is direc- ings on food.
can women help the. persons
ted at. minority groups, t h e An investigation conducted
help. Headwaydaa
\ipoof, illiterate and near illiter- by Assistant Attorney General
been made in Detroit but the
ate, the very people who can James Princiotta of the Conidea, which was slow to start
least afford to be victimized," sumer Frauds and Protection
above
the suspicions of the imthe Attorney General said.
in the Attorney General of"The defendants h a v e in- fice disclosed that Natpac Attorney General Louis J. proverished people, has spread
timate knowledge of all the as-bought ordinary food freezers Lefkowitz announced that the and "Elly is going national"
pects and all the evils existing at- from $170 to $390 which observance of Law Day-USA, as one of her admirers said.
in ,such purported 'family food] were sold for. prices ranging "annually sponsored by the NewShe doesn't overlook that its
programs' and indeed played from $798 to $995 plus credit York State Department of good politics for a genuijie Rea vitalpart in creating these service charges varying from Law, will be held-on Wednes-t publican push in the, big cities,
day, May 1, 196?, at noon.
where ' the Democrats a r e
evils and perpetuating them as $250 to $300.
evidenced by the gross annual The contracts were then The ceremonies will'be held strong," but somehow in talking
Bales of $10,000,000," h& added. "sold" to three finance com- on the steps of the CapitoL in to her the rewards. in human
The Attorney General said panies owned by Natpac, Inc., Albany, Weather permitting. In progress seem more important
he has obtained a judgme n t or, in some, cases, to disasso- the event of rain, they will be to her.
which enjoins Natpac, Inc., ofciated sales finance firms.
conducted in Chancellors Hall, A typical reaction of. a first105-32 Cross Bay Boulevard, In addition to Natpac, Inc. Education Building, Albany. timer at the Conference came
from Mrs. John Langford, who
Ozone Park, Queens County, the court order names Natpac
four food "Service firms" and of New York, Inc., Natpac of Associate - -Judge--.r of - the is ^ president .of Republican
three finance companies,. all Long Island, Inc., Guaranteed Court of Appeals Francis Ber- Women's Club of OgdensburgT
subsidiaries of Natpac, Inc.* Home Food Service, Inc., Qual-gan, will preside over the ob- New York. In an interview
and Martin Schwartz of 11 ified Home Food Service, Inc. servance which has as its she said she had been given
Glamford Road, Great Neck, as the four subsidiary food pro- theme, 'jOnly, a Lawful Society some good political tips includNew York, the president of gram firms. The subsidiary fi- Can Build a Better Society." ing "if you take leadership get
these companies.
nance company defendants are Addresses will be given by the particulars about the isThe order bars the defend- Food Financiers, Inc;, Asso- James Gibson, Presiding Jus- sues and don't criticize any of
ants from falsely claim i n g ciated Budgeting Corp., and tice of the Appellate Division, the GOP candidates." It's been
Department;
Mayor her objective" to build unity
they are offering a "family Corp., and National Budgeting Third
Erastus Corning, II, of Al- within the local club and she's
food program"* when their real System, Inc.
purpose Is; allegedly to sell The defendants consented to bany; J. Henry Neale, Presi- confident her club may be a
food freezers at grossly inflat- the entry of the order and paid dent of the New York State winner for securing the largest
ed prices. It also bars them costs in the'amount of $16,000 Bar Association and Attorney percentage of new. members
6.50-13 TUBELES5
when the official count is
from making, false : claims
General Lefkowitz.
BLACKWAU
made on May 25th. She had
EACH
about the freezer itself, t h e
IN4'S
amount and quality of food to Readers of theyfirst" Ency- Governor—• Rockefeller also words of praise for Charlotte
be supplied, and the cost of the clopaedia Britannica 200 years has been invited by the Attor- King of Rochester, the New
same. The order. w,as.,signed ago were advised to cure a ney General to speak. Legisla- York chairman, who helped
Plus 1iS1 Federal Tax per firs
by Justice George PosteL
cold by "lying in bed" and tive leaders, members of the her make the most of the sesBar, civic and service organi- sions. . .and encouraged her
The
Attorney
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papers, on file in the court,
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invited
to
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and he seemed to be having a
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To Be Noted
Wednesday
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POSITION AVAILABLE
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