THE TORRANCE HERALD MAY 9, 1963 | LIFE'S LIKE THAT By FRED NEHEP Enjoy the finest at , i CHIP I lowest j STAMPS | cost! 7 MAGIC SALE DAYS THURS. TO WED., MAY 9 TO 15 "Don't worry about my age ... I ran spade a garden If you can stand running off to a luncheon every day'.!!" YELLOW CLING - HALVES OR SLICES FRESH : I CONC£NTF A Closer Look DEL MONTE LARGE i SHOV By Ernest Kreiling PEACHES "AA" EGGS \ ORA N< HOLLYWOOD—After eight Gunsmoke changed much In years Gunsmoke has probably eight years?" 1 asked Mac­ no. 2Vz , 6 oz. replaced the bath as America's Donnell. dozen favorite Saturday night tradi­ "They've changed a lot and :; i can tion. not in a way I particularly like. fir/,-- « A few years ago Gunsmoke Matt was more human then. 25 31 was the most and not nearly 2 popular western 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. Wagon Train, and the Vir­ Kitty's morals were consider­ FIRST ginian. ably more in doubt then than QUALITY GRADE "AA" CONCENTRATED DETERGENT GOLDEN CREME !i FO!|SAL/ Gunsmokc's perennial popu­ they are now. larity is a tribute to producer "I personally would like to GOLDEN Norman MacDonnell and writer see us put a little more bite CRIME SALVO PREMIUM LAUR John Mcston. who in creating into their personalities. They've Gunsmoke pioneered the so- all become bland, so terribly BUTTER called adult western for tele­ pure and righteous," MacDon­ TABLETS ICE CREAM MA1 vision. nell continued. • • • "But these changes just hap- giant half 24 o z._ IN SPITE of skeptics who >cned, slowly and without our pound thought hone operas were only >cing aware of it. Although I size j gallon jar- . for the Saturday afternoon cap- don't particularly like every­ includes lOc off ., pistol trade, the two men com­ thing that's happening to Matt, M f* bined authenticity with a re­ )oc, Kitty and Chester (he'll spect for the history of this be back for at least 10 episode* next season), we don't plan any brief episode in America's Stem* frontier to bring a basic enter­ changes in them or in format." ECONOMICAL DAILY DIET MA PERKIN'S end pitcei (hi ,y ^r* tainment form to television. Al­ though the western had been BEFORE VISITING with a part of American folklore MacDonnell I had visited one HUNT'S STEWED DOG E«y w«y fo ipot ilm eh toll since Owen Wistcr's novel, of the ranches Hollywood uses PINEAPPLE •The Virginian," and since Wil­ for "location" shooting and Sta Flo L qu liam S. Hart immortalized the watched Jim Amess film a TOMATOES FOOD With irut flavor ef frteth pt< cowboy on film, the closest scene for an upcoming se­ JUICE thing to„ _a .real — M'^stcrn- televi- quence. no. 2'/2 Welchfc Cr sion had seen was Roy Rogers Standing next to a campflre tall 46 oz. and Hopalong Cassldy. in the middle of the prairie, can cans can Foodcraft livens up mi M|lt p The twist that affected the Matt Dillon says, "If you're go­ course of television entertain­ ing to shoot me. you'll have to Sweet P ick ment was.. — the— - "adult~- western" shoot me in the back." He • term MacDonnell said they turns his back to the hombre. originally used to.. connote the Short pause. Then In a deft possible audience and the in­ movement Matt spins and fires. i y li tended authenticity, not neces­ Dillon Is hit in the leg. but FROZEN . corn, peas, peas & onions, j ASSORTED COLORS XINT HACK sarily the content."" • the other critter is dead. Dil­ tomatoes, • • lon, his face grimacing with peas & celery, peas in cream sauce ; ZEE PAPER TOWELS FRANCO AMERICAN i! MEXICAN EN( THERE'LL always be a west­ pain, crawls awkwardly toward the camera. Cut. gi-nt 07r ern,' MacDonnell__..__ said, because BIRDS roll Z/t when written In the proper I estimate this scene to be EYE ITALIAN '5T 39Q idiom, the western has an ap­ part of Jim Amess* 300th-plus pealing honesty, strength and episode of Gunsmoke. Al­ VEGETABLES ' t "" •impllcity." though It struck me as remark­ LIBBY SPAGHETTI AIL PURPO&6 0 What was so new about Gun- ably similar to many another smoke eight years ago? Gunsmoke scene Pve watched 8 oz. ^Qc . SWEET PEAS toll $4 fj WHIT|»KIN "Much of it was a matter of over the years, there was little I no. 303 17/% doubt that Jim Arness and pkgs. afli^F cans authenticity. For example, wo can | / U 7 ] didn't Rive Matt's horse a name. Andy McLaglen, who's directed « 9c A horse in those days was about 80 Gunsmokes. were try­ t'Z •imply a means of transporta­ ing diligently to make this one ,AJ 1 tion, and men had to rely on at least a little better than the ^.j,.*....v,..,,r:.. more than one. We had our last one. 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 an idea that someone ought to sound of a small private air- ORIGINAL FORMULA DUBUQUE knock the Marshall around plane to fade away and for the once in a while. Ho not only contrails of a jet to dissipate wasn't superman, he wasn't al­ into the California-Kansas sky. FINLEY'S GIN HAM ways Impressed with the idea But except for such 20th Cen­ of being a lawman. 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