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Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 1, 1971 THE BATTALION Comedian Dangerfield complains that he receives little respect By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “I don’t get no respect,” grum bled Rodney Dangerfield as he explained why he was a few min utes late. “You know, I got this cab driver who kept on talking to me even after I paid him.” Easing himself into the booth in the intimate Manhattan night club that bears his name, the comedian who has built the “no respect” bit into a household word observed with a wry smile that “anyone who talks like that doesn’t deserve any respect.” The line and the routines built ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CALL 822-3737 iV 1016 Texas Avenue ■— Bryan AGGIES v. s . TIGERS BATON ROUGE, LA Saturday, Sept. 18th MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW RAMADA INN 10 MIN. FROM TIGER STADIUM I—10 & U.S. 61 Phone your local Ramada Inn or dial toll free 1/800/235/5800 Convention and banquet facilities • Coffee Shop • Restau rant • Lounge • 175 beautiful air conditioned rooms • Color TV • 50' Pool • Room Service • Laundry Service • Display rooms • Children free • Kiddy pool • Free ice. w 10330 AIRLINE HIGHWAY • B ATO N RO UG E, LOU ISI AN A 70815 around it were created almost by accident, Dangerfield said, ex plaining: “A number of years ago I was working for nothing in a club in Greenwich Village. I worked three months for nothing. Each night I’d get up on the stage and spill out everything in me to the audience. Then, one night, a fun ny thing happened. I told them I got no respect, and they went for it — they liked it. “The people were sympathetic. Probably it’s because we all go through the same thing. It’s not easy out there in the world. There are days when nothing goes right. Everything seems to go against you. You don’t get no respect.” The stint in the Village club was the easygoing Dangerfield’s second try at making it as a comic. “The first time out I was 19,” Dangerfield said. “I kept at it until I was 28. I got married during that time. My wife was a singer. We were apart a lot and that was not what I really want ed. I don’t like to travel to do shows. Also, a guy that age is kind of young to communicate with mature people. A talking comedian takes years to attain the maturity needed to reach ma ture adults. I was making a liv ing, but I just quit.” Dangerfield’s new career was ‘Blithe Spirit’ to be presented by Aggie Players The Aggie Players will organ ize for 1971-72 and a Noel Cow ard play Tuesday at A&M. Director C. K. Esten said the 7:30 p.m. meeting will be in Building “J’ f , in which the Eng lish Department theater arts sec tion is quartered. Esten said the first 1971-72 production will be Noel Coward’s highly sophisticated comedy, “Blithe Spirit.” Former Aggie Players mem bers and other A&M students interested in acting and other phases of stage production are invited to the meeting, Esten added. as a paint salesman. “Life is funny,” he grinned. “I made a living selling paint but business is boring. So all the time I kept writing material. I’d write it down and throw it in a drawer. I accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. “I sold some of it to comedians, but I wanted to do it myself. So at 40 I started working part- time. I’d sell paint during the day and go to the Village at night and try. to escape into a fantasy of humor. Humor is a great art. Some men gamble, some drink, me, I go for humor.” Dangerfield, now 49, kept up the double life until he was 44 — “then I gave up paint.” The chance to make the break came after he made a successful ap pearance on Ed Sullivan’s tele vision show and suddenly was in demand as a comic. “You know,” he reflected, “I like to try to do the impossible in life. They told me I was nuts when I went back into show busi ness. But I made it. Then they really thought I was nuts when I opened this club of mine in bad times. But it worked and I’m do ing well. “I’d much rather be here,” he continued. “I don’t feel like trav eling to do shows. You get to a point in your life where you get tired of traveling. Maybe I’m lazy.” Unlike some comics, Danger- field writes his own material. “I always think I’ve written my last joke,” he said with a smile, “and then, boom, there’s another one. But I’m a spas modic writer. I’ll be out driving or walking and I’ll get hit with the idea for a joke. “But,” he cautions, “Writing a joke is only a quarter of the work. The big problem is con tinuity. You’ve got to perfect routines that hang together. The jokes are just part of the rou tine. Laughter is a tough com modity to find these days. “By the way, you want to hear my latest . . .?” IN JUST SEVEN SECONDS, a series of dynamite blasts sent an ei^ht-story building crashing to the ground in Memphis, Tenn. The demolition of the former cotton ware house was by a Maryland firm that specializes in blasting away structures. No other buildings were damaged in the blast. (AP Wirephoto) Creamery employe retires after 27 years of service Retiring employes honored at party How to get Long Distance Telephone Service in dormitory rooms This will answer many questions concerning long distance telephone service in dormitory rooms. This year all dorm telephones are re stricted to local service only until the student toll account card recently distributed to you has been completed and turned in to our sign-up desk located in the lobby of the MSC. The sign-up booth will be staffed during the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the following dates only—September 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8. Only those students who have signed a student toll account card requesting long distance calling privileges will be authorized to place long distance calls and have the charges billed to their dorm room telephone number. To avoid confusion and reduce the possibility of errors, you should come to the sign-up desk with your roommate. This will insure the proper person .being named the account manager who will be respon sible for payment of each bill. No deposits will be required unless past paying habits warrant a security deposit. Remember ... if you have signed a student foil account card and should move from a room in which you have long distance service, it is your responsibility to notify the telephone company by complet ing a room transfer card (Blue) which can be obtained at the housing office. If you do not complete a room change telephone card, you may be responsible for long distance calls you did not make. Other questions you may have can be answered at the sign-up desk or by calling the telephone business office at 823-091 I. GERERAL TELEPHORE A&M officials honored Fiscal Office employees Mrs. Merle E. Bullock and Alvin C. Harper at a retirement party Tuesday. Mrs. Bullock ends 14 years of service to A&M and Harper com pletes 18 years. Both officially retired Tuesday. Mrs. Bullock, accounting assist ant, is the wife of Curtis E. Bul lock, a storekeeper in the Chem istry Department who will retire later this year. Tony Scarpinato of Bryan has retired after 27 years of working in the A&M Creamery. His time here has seen many changes, including the big shift from the old creamery across the tracks from the university to the spotless, stainless steel sur roundings of the newer structure almost in the campus center. He has watched hundreds of dairy science students come and go while filling about 90,000 milk bottles a week and packaging and handling no telling how much ice cream and other dairy products. Multiply those 90,000 milk bot tles by the months and years, and you will have some idea of his service to A&M — service which was recognized at a bar becue luncheon in his honor in the Dairy Science Section of the Animal Science Department. The affair was attended by his fellow workers, a large number of faculty and staff members, and his wife, Lena. Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Animal Sci ence Department, presented the honoree with a large framed cer tificate. The citation read in part, “. . . for 27 years of devoted service to Texas A&M University, we the student body, and the former stu dents extend appreciation and offer high honor for the signifi cant contributions he has made during his tenure of distinguished service.” It was signed by A&M Presi dent Jack K. Williams and Dean of Agriculture H. O. Kunkel. Scarpinato came to the cream ery during the rumblings of World War II. He had been a farmer in Brazos County, but de cided he had had enough of try ing to make a go with five-cent cotton. “I went to work at the cream ery for $20 a week. That wasn’t much, but it sure beat farming,' he recalled. Apparently, his creamery ca reer has agreed with him, ft didn’t lose a week during tta 27 years. What’s ahead for his retire ment? Scarpinato says he has node! inite plans, expect to catch i) on his home gardening at If Highway 6 North. And thereat always kinfolks to visit. Artist and wife combine talents if tough team, choosi they than At Houst of co but hi of an “W enthu we’re ward want A Best about year. “I pract: to w< out, t very Dube: tackle By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The art world was an abstract dream to Tony Bernard! when he undertook the solid reality of premedical studies, and then en gineering, at the University of California at Berkeley. Now, over 20 years later, he’s a nationally recognized sculptor who counts psychiatrists and architects among his best cus tomers. In between, the 45-year-old Bernard! job-hopped as a report er, television writer and aero- HOT TASTY DELICIOUS space systems engineer. Eiglt] years ago, he chucked it all work in metallic art. “There was this motivation I had for sculpture,” he said, “M my wife and I knew I coi make a living at it. Then wedi cided I could.” He hasn’t been out of wod since, and his work reflects ft new freedom. “A lot of my stuff has win? on it,” he said, “it reaches od — expresses freedom.” A spiral of brass birds circle upward in the airy workshop gallery he operates in South Dei ver. And a massive Prometh® now in front of a public libraff in suburban Englewood, reachu up, away from earthly restrio tions. bat PIZZA ^jhlTiiVr T NOW SHOWING 1:15 - 3:16 - 5:17 - 7:18 - 9:18 Walt Disney’s “SCANDALOUS JOHN” College Station Phone 846-4112 College Station Phone 846-5777 Ml. Menu STARTS TODAY 1:45 - 3:35 - 5:25 - 7:20 - 9:15 Jack Nicholsons “FIVE EASY PIECES” QUEEN PIZZAS Sm. 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