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...your story on Bert Lahr, Oct. 1: TIME should listen again. Methinks Bert Lahr's bewildered cry sounds more like unngah, unngah than gung-gung...
Bert Lahr's ululations are represented phonetically by "ngah ngah ngah," rather than by "gung-gung-gung...
...Says Lahr: "Gung-gung-gung is all right so far as it goes, but it should be pronounced with an umlaut. That cry is really most effective during the ragweed season...
...teeth. The shows were, in effect, well-staged revues, and were often reviewed by critics. In this heady atmosphere Lahr felt a new need. Funnymen, like birds of passage, are best identified by their distinctive cries. He developed one which sounded as though he were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience and concentrated more & more on perfecting an air of bewilderment and insane incompetence, the eternal fall guy with one foot in his mouth and the other poised over a banana...
...None came. But one Sunday as he was reading in his backyard he heard a distant shouting. In a yard on the hill above him he saw an astounding sight: a cold-eyed little M-G-M talent scout who had ignored him for months was waving at him. "Gung Gung!" the apparition shouted. "How are you today, Gung Gung?" Lahr rose and walked to the house. "They've previewed the picture," he called through the door, "and I'm good." They...