Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Wednesday june 37 Gordon enjoys Winnipeg audiences and new role the audiences Are wonderful. They react beautifully and they laugh in toe right places which is very important Gale Gordon was talking about his first Winnipeg performances of on Golden Pond the newest attraction at the stage West dinner theatre. But just for a moment you could hear the Stern tones of Windy banker Theodore j. Mooney insinuate themselves within the articulate measured tone. Mooney Lucille Ball s banker Boss in the Lucy show is one of a string of pompous amusing and ultimately lucrative irascible in the Gordon Catalo gue part of a set which also includes principal Osgood Conklin of our miss Brooks department store manager Bascomb bleacher of Sally neighbor John broadcasting Randal Millroy Wilson Dennis the menace and Harrison Carter Ball s Boss and brother in Law in Here s Lucy. Considering that heritage Gordon said he was Happy with the More gentle role in on Golden Pond. In Ernest Thompson s play Gordon is Norman Thayer a sad old fellow who finds new spirit through conversations with a 13-year old boy. Gordon Calls it a sentimental comedy. It s a Relief not to do a Blust Erous he said in an interview yesterday. Typecasting does t worry him. Gor Don born in 1906, has spent 58 years in the business from stage to radio to to and Back to stage again and knows what he can do. I m not one of those frustrated actors who feels he has to do All kinds of different parts to satisfy his ego. I believe what Arthur Treacher said when they pay you at the end of the month grab the Money and run. If you give the audience their Money s Worth then you be earned your Money. Take it and be Gordon was born Charles Aldrich jr., senior being a famous vaudevillian. He changed his name in part to avoid symphony loses principal cellist Stucka going to Cleveland by Richard Garlick Gary Stucka principal cellist with the Winnipeg symphony orchestra has been hired by the Cleveland orchestra and will make his last appearance in Winnipeg june 8 in a concert by the Canada West i auditioned for the cello Section in Cleveland about a month Stucka says. I Start with them August 27thv j. I m going to miss my friends in the but i m looking Forward to playing with a really Fine the Cleveland orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel is rated one of the top five orchestras in the world Stucka says. The orchestra travels extensively and will visit China and Japan next year. The Chicago born musician says it could be quite some time before the so hires a replacement for him since Good cellists Are hard to find. The so searched for two years before hiring him in 1977, and its current Uncertain financial situation makes recruiting even harder. For the Canada West Trio Stucka s departure Means disbanding says Charles Dobias associate so concert master. Dobias started the Trio three years ago along with Stucka and so pianist Irmgard Baerg. In the first half of its final concert at Westminster United Church the group will play Haydn s Trio in g major Trio no. 2 by Canadian composer Violet Archer and the Dummy Trio by Dvorak. Following an intermission the Trio will be joined by so principal violist Rennie Regehr and so violinist Marie Paule Parcells to play Schu Mann s piano quintet in e Flat major. Admission is free starting time is 8 . Gallenkamp or place for shoes i infant s leather sandals asst d col ours. 5 to 12. Reg. 9.99 Only pair sport shoes for the whole family styled or Comfort on or off the courts with fully cushioned insoles Arch supports and padded collars. White Canvas uppers with contrasting trim in High or Low cuts. Sizes for the whole family. 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With Ball most readers will Likely remember him for his regular sparring role with Lucille Ball. The association began More than 30 years ago when he joined Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz sr., on the hit lbs radio comedy my favorite husband. The couple wanted him for the i love Lucy to series but Gordon had a prior commitment to another lbs radio to to work our miss Brooks. In 1963, Gordon became banker Mooney on the Lucy show following the end of the Dennis the menace series on lbs. When the Lucy show was superseded by Here s Lucy in 1968, Gordon joined As Harrison Carter Boss of the unique employment Agency. The show ran until 1974. I love Lucy was one of the first situation comedies. Gordon said qualify writing was one reason for that. Of course in those he added All of the situations weren t used whatever critics might say of Ball s penchant for playing Well meaning but helpless women in real life she was a canny planner and performer. Gordon praised her for her professional approach to to comedy an approach he feels is missing in modern programs. The great secret of comedy is to do it perfectly straight. Now you see so Many people on the screen being funny and they re looking right at the camera and almost saving to the audience wait til you hear this next line that just kills it because they re stepping right out of character. Lucy never did that no matter what situation she was in no matter How bizarre. We always played a scene As if it was a perfectly Normal thing to do. There was never any and Libbing or joking. We stuck to the every word. There s a great lesson that a lot of people nowadays could never i love Lucy which had Ball As Hausfrau to bandleader Ricky Ricardo was one of to s hottest comedy tickets in the 50s. Ironically said Gordon lbs wanted to work without Arnaz. Wave free press the secret of comedy is to do it says Gale Gordon. They did t want Desi at All. They said they did t want this cuban Bongo player nobody could and critics running As usual against popular support slagged All of the Lucy variations. The reviews were dreadful. Every year they d say it was the same old stuff with the same canned laughter. Lucy never had canned laughter in the history of the the two worked together again this year on the Pilot for bungle Abbey a comedy about assorted police and sex cons who join a non religious monastic order. Ball was going to direct Gordon a great the show alas has hit one Snag the writing was just Gordon As you May have guessed has Strong views on comedy. His reluctance to obey network views on the matter networks Are run by was nurtured at least in part in his Early radio Days. Most sponsors he said were unable to recognize a funny line and were obliged to Monitor studio audiences so they could find out when to laugh. Responsibility also lies with the actor s awareness of his own strengths. Gordon s decision to work As comic support convinced him to refuse some recent to projects. I be had several he said but i Don t want to be the Star. I m too old and i Don t have the ego. I m very Happy to support.1 arts Council Grants total the Manitoba arts Council yesterday announced Grants totalling to 20 individual Manitoba artists and eight literary and visual arts groups. Major arts Grants of were awarded to photographers John Paskievich and Joanne Jackson Johnson artist Charlotte Werner playwright Alf Silver and composer Bruce Carlson of Domain. Project Grants were awarded to five visual artists Gordon Adams Wanda Condon James Doran Carl Hrenchuk of South Indian Lake and Marcel Gosselin of la Salle under a program of Grants to film makers initiated this year John Paizs received and Roberta Kipp was awarded Short term project Grants of were awarded to dancer Ross Brierton composer Diana visual artists Luella Levitt Karen Handford of High Bluff Vern Hume and Lone Thorkelson of Rose Isle. Film makers Ryan Takatsu and j. Reid Dickie received Grants of and respectively. Grants totalling were awarded to Turnstone press hyperion press Queens ten House publishing and editions Duble for Book publishing in 1981. The association of Manitoba Book publishers received and the Magazine contemporary verse ii was Given plug in an alternate Art Gal Lery was awarded and the Winnipeg film group received in car Bingo Sun., june . 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