THE TORRANCE HERALD MAY 9, 1963 | LIFE'S LIKE THAT By FRED NEHEP Enjoy the finest at , i CHIP I lowest cost! j STAMPS | 7 MAGIC SALE DAYS THURS. TO WED., MAY 9 TO 15
"Don't worry about my age ... I ran spade a garden If you FRESH : I CONC£NTF can stand running off to a luncheon every day'.!!" YELLOW CLING - HALVES OR SLICES A Closer Look DEL MONTE LARGE i SHOV By Ernest Kreiling PEACHES "AA" EGGS \ ORA N< HOLLYWOOD—After eight Gunsmoke changed much In no. 2Vz , 6 oz. years Gunsmoke has probably eight years?" 1 asked Mac dozen replaced the bath as America's Donnell. :; i can favorite Saturday night tradi "They've changed a lot and fir/,-- « tion. not in a way I particularly like. 25 31 2 A few years ago Gunsmoke Matt was more human then. was the most popular western and not nearly the shining sym out of a total of 35 on the air. bol of law and order he's be In the fall it enters its ninth come. Doc was more of a year with competition from quack, and spent more time in only four_ others. Rawhide, the Long Branch. Kitty, well. !i FO!|SAL/ Wagon Train, and the Vir Kitty's morals were consider FIRST QUALITY GRADE "AA" CONCENTRATED DETERGENT GOLDEN CREME ginian. ably more in doubt then than popu they are now. Gunsmokc's perennial "I personally would like to CRIME SALVO PREMIUM LAUR larity is a tribute to producer bite GOLDEN Norman MacDonnell and writer see us put a little more John Mcston. who in creating into their personalities. They've MA1 so- all become bland, so terribly BUTTER TABLETS ICE CREAM Gunsmoke pioneered the pure and righteous," MacDon called adult western for tele nell continued. giant half 24 o z._ vision. • • • "But these changes just hap- jar- . who >cned, slowly and without our pound size j gallon IN SPITE of skeptics >cing aware of it. Although I includes lOc off ., thought hone operas were only don't particularly like every M f* for the Saturday afternoon cap- thing that's happening to Matt, pistol trade, the two men com Chester (he'll bined authenticity with a re )oc, Kitty and be back for at least 10 episode* Stem* end pitcei (hi ,y ^r* spect for the history of this we don't plan any brief episode in America's next season), ECONOMICAL DAILY DIET MA PERKIN'S frontier to bring a basic enter changes in them or in format." tainment form to television. Al E«y w«y fo ipot ilm eh toll though the western had been BEFORE VISITING with STEWED DOG PINEAPPLE a part of American folklore MacDonnell I had visited one HUNT'S of the ranches Hollywood uses Sta Flo L qu since Owen Wistcr's novel, ef frteth pt< •The Virginian," and since Wil for "location" shooting and FOOD JUICE With irut flavor the watched Jim Amess film a TOMATOES liam S. Hart immortalized se Cr cowboy on film, the closest scene for an upcoming tall 46 oz. Welchfc thing to„ a_ real. — M'^stcrn- televi- quence. no. 2'/2 Foodcraft livens up mi M|lt p sion had seen was Roy Rogers Standing next to a campflre can cans can and Hopalong Cassldy. in the middle of the prairie, Sweet P ick The twist that affected the Matt Dillon says, "If you're go course of television entertain ing to shoot me. you'll have to ment was.. — the— - "adult~- western" shoot me in the back." He • term MacDonnell said they turns his back to the hombre. i y li originally used to.. connote the Short pause. Then In a deft movement Matt spins and fires. HACK possible audience and the in . corn, peas, peas & onions, j ASSORTED COLORS XINT tended authenticity, not neces Dillon Is hit in the leg. but FROZEN . . FRANCO AMERICAN i! sarily the content."" • the other critter is dead. Dil tomatoes, peas & celery, peas in cream sauce ; ZEE PAPER TOWELS MEXICAN EN( • • lon, his face grimacing with pain, crawls awkwardly toward gi-nt 07r THERE'LL always be a west roll Z/t ITALIAN '5T 39Q ern,' MacDonnell__..__ said, because the camera. Cut. BIRDS EYE when written In the proper I estimate this scene to be ' t "" idiom, the western has an ap part of Jim Amess* 300th-plus honesty, strength and episode of Gunsmoke. Al VEGETABLES LIBBY SPAGHETTI AIL PURPO&6 0 pealing though It struck me as remark •impllcity." many another SWEET PEAS WHIT|»KIN What was so new about Gun- ably similar to 8 oz. ^Qc . toll $4 fj smoke eight years ago? Gunsmoke scene Pve watched 303 17/% over the years, there was little I no. cans ] "Much of it was a matter of pkgs. afli^F can | / U 7 « 9c authenticity. For example, wo doubt that Jim Arness and t'Z didn't Rive Matt's horse a name. Andy McLaglen, who's directed 1 A horse in those days was about 80 Gunsmokes. were try ,AJ ^.j,.*....v,..,,r:.. •imply a means of transporta ing diligently to make this one and men had to rely on at least a little better than the tion, last one. more than one. We had our • • • actors fire only five shots from their six-shooters, since most THEY SHOT the scene men kept_.. the hammer closed at least three times, pausing on an empty chamber. We had between takes only for the ORIGINAL FORMULA DUBUQUE an idea that someone ought to sound of a small private air- knock the Marshall around plane to fade away and for the once in a while. Ho not only contrails of a jet to dissipate GIN HAM wasn't superman, he wasn't al into the California-Kansas sky. FINLEY'S ways Impressed with the idea But except for such 20th Cen of being a lawman. And, ol tury harassments the cast and course, Kitty wasn't exactly the crew calmly, methodically, pure little girl in blue jeans skillfully, and slowly createc from next door In other words another piece for that complex thcro was a certain reality and of I IMI contradictory moslac fifth makes up the existing folk- about the people and situa that CARR'S MOUNTAIN GLEN GRAND TASTE TENDER N' JUICY tlons." lure about America's frontier "HAVE THE characters in West. SCOTCH FRANKS pound STAR QAXEI<>*^ Ml $498 pkg. ————— 45 $BFT(————— Bj CXAY R. fOLLAN UHA ' quort ^" -no. •"" ^) MAK. tt M Your Do-// Atli»/l/ Cuid. K iFT.w rfi _^i-a> AW(. JO if According lo lh« Start. ' OCT'.SJ&1& To develop messogc (or Thursdoy, rM4X8-57«T EASTERN PREMIUM WISCONSIN CHEDDAR CHEESE 1^ 7.10-1M3 teod wordi corre>p.xvling to number* S34673 %. L/ 33 3X38 of your Zodiac biitli sign. KOino jf 'AUB» 1 Vmoanfr 3IPic»ni itl Romarllc OCT.34ti-, PROST BEER LONGHORN 0.\ AW. 11 2 ' l