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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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