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...Dumb Cop. In Portland, Ore., police put out a fire under a parked automobile, considerably annoying George Harper, its owner, who complained that he always left the pilot light burning in his Stanley Steamer...
...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...
...Dago got along well with the law. He was arrested 200 times, but never served time. His explanation: "They were all bum raps, and besides I had good lawyers." He was human, of course-once he fired five shots at a cop who was ungallantly arresting a woman on a dark street-but in general he was a quiet citizen. He was a good husband and father (he lived with his wife and two adopted children) and he was generous with his girl friends and relatives...
...Atlanta cop, placidly picking his teeth in front of the drug store, remarked: "We don't have no trouble with niggers out here...
Topnotcher of this, as of previous Center shows, is Comic Freddie Trenkler, whose magnificent technique is directed entirely to madcap ends. One moment Trenkler- running on skates, but not skating-tears feverishly around the stage as if simultaneously fleeing a cop and pursuing a burglar. The next moment, he streaks straight toward the audience, stops dead on his heels at the very lip of the stage. If rivaled by such other ice-comedy classics as Frick & Frack and The Four Bruises, Trenkler's act outranks them in one respect-it is done solo...