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4A DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER I Oct. 27, 1974 i Ntaiin-iin owa runs PEOPLE. in the almost as rare as ler. He's angry at himself, the the world, his wife. He's looking for someone to take it -t)ut on, and there you are in bright lights." Put-Down lines Rey, has an arsenal of handy put-down lines.

"Did any of your mother's children live?" To a woman heckler, "How did you look before your body went bad?" Or, "His mother had three children, one of each." Rey is a muscular 5 feet, 7 inches tall and supremely confident. He disagrees with club officials who are concerned about a comic's act being ruined by hecklers. Besides, he says, the malicious hecklers only come out of the woodwork once in awhile. On the bright side, hard economic times are reportedly descending upon us, and those are the times when dogs said, "Hecklers help me make my show. I love hecklers." He places hecklers in three categories, two of them benign.

There is the "happy-go-lucky guy out for a good time," who wants to help the comic with his act. Rey said understanding. "He's fun. I wouldn't hurt him." The same goes for persons in the second category, the 1 d-mouthed drunk." A person talking incoherently is funny by himself and spices up the act, Rey said. But of the third category: "The only one I really do a job on is the malicious heck 30PEN 12 news Home delivery i 't SUNDAY SPECIAL i i talking next Wednesday through Saturday.

His credits include tours with singers Nancy Wilson and James Brown. His previous job was at the Parisian Room in Los Angeles, with singer Gloria Lynne. He said he also has appeared as a television and movie actor. Mrs. Bonnie Mitchell of Des Moines, who booked Rey here, said she's paying him $500 for each four-night week.

The club has used a band and two singers, along with Rey. In a recent interview, Rey told about his craft, how he adapts his act to his audience and how he puts hecklers in their proper places. His style is telling long jokes aimed at a big punch line with smaller zingers, funny faces and malaprop-isms really depreciate all you did for thrown in along the way. Joke Marathon The 34-year-old comic has been in the business six years, after eight years as a school teacher. A year before turning professional, he said, he once on a bet told jokes for seven straight hours without repeating himself.

He says he knows many more jokes today, most of which he wrote. Almost invariably, Rey opens his act with a joke with himself as the butt. He theorizes that people like, and laugh at, persons who can laugh at themselves. If there is a cardinal rule of comedy, it's that the comic has to be liked; just being funny isn't enough. Typically, Rey slides from his opening joke, which is blatant, toward more subtle ones, feeling his audience out.

"The hardest thing to play is the unenlightened audience, people who don't read and don't even watch the news on TV," he said. For example, he said he knew he was in trouble one night during the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings when a large portion of one audience didn't seem to recognize the name of Senator Sam Ervin. Rule of Thumb A rule of thumb, Rey said, is: "The more unenlightened the audience, the more risque you have to be." Regarding hecklers, Rey By PATRICK LACKEY Stand-up comics are almost as rare in Iowa night clubs as one-armed jugglers and talking dogs. Night club operators around the state say there are several reasons for that, including booze.

"In Vaudeville, they never drank in the audience," said Gene Moore, who books acts for the Victoria Lounge in the Des Moines Hyatt Hotel on Fleur Drive. "But when people in night clubs drink," he said, "their dispositions change, some of them for the better, but some of them for the worse." And a malicious drunk can ruin a comic's act and everyone's evening, he said. Drinking isn't unique to Iowa of course. But in many cities in some other parts of the country such as the coasts and Las Vegas the comics went directly from vaudeville into night clubs. That never happened in Iowa, and the live comedy died with vaudeville in the early 1940s.

That's perhaps why the problems of putting a comic in an Iowa night spot don't apply elsewhere. Another of those problems, for instance, is night club Entertainment: THE IOWA SCENE noise. Many of the clubs serve food, and eating is noisy. So are the patrons who just want to talk. Fragile Act Paul Verciglio, who books the acts for Top of the Tower in the Holiday Inn Downtown here, said a singer and band can overcome the clatter and babble by turning up the speakers.

But a comic's act is more fragile. Also, there's the cost of a comic. Verciglio said that Bob Hope "could carry the Top of the Tower," since patrons would put down their forks and listen hard to someone of his stature. But, Verciglio said, "Hope would be more expensive than a Republican dinner party." Another financial obstacle to stand-up comics is the belief shared by most club officials around the state that a comic of a stature less than somebody such as Hope would require a band on the bill as well. Comics perhaps even the very best known need or like to have a band to get the audience's attention, club officials say.

"You can't bring on a com DECOR Wrought Iron Washable Velvet Red, Green, Gold 34" high, 15" wide 1 o.r Si Husbands are more often getting in on the experience of birth, with many hospitals permitting their presence in the delivery room. Bill and Annie Holmes of Berkeley had their baby, Jason, delivered at home with a lay midwife, apprentice and pediatrician from the Berkeley Birth Group in attendance. Bill's participation wasn't passive either; he cut thcord. lidy, yea The limp fall, the newest import from Australia, is an upbeat downer with Vaudevil-lias overtones. At a stuffy party, walking down a street, or any other stage of ber own choosing, Mary, Lady Mee-tagoe may decide to enact her piece de resistance.

Without warning, she suddenly jyies limp, and collapses into a rubbery heap. It's all for the benefit of the bystanders, says Kary, who confided to People magazine, 'The best marks are Americans especially when they take themselves too seriously." tlssdjreffct bulge Now the British in a new book Ultra ttS everyone that the Allies had broken the Nazi code in WWII and Jmew every move the enemy made. The book doesn't go into detail, however, about the ignominious "Battle of the Bulge" in which Allied forces were surprised. Spy authority Ladislas Faraga fills in the gap. The Americans did get advance data on Germany's plans for! the battle.

But the brigadier general who received the intelligence was not to be taken in. He thought it all Nazi braggadocio, wrote "Bull" across the report and filed it away. Red (apt Despite a Washington reputation for sharp efficiency, William Simon was bested by Red Tape at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council opening in Moscow. He and Foreign Trade Minister Patro-Hchev were slated to ceremoniously cut the tape together as a diplomatic duo, but while Patrolichev snipped briskly through the ribbon, Simon chopped at it in vain.

Where they are now Lash Larue Rolling Stone tells us that, iii the continuing saga of Lash Larue, the old screen cowboy was on the other side of law enforcement recently, when he was arrested on a disorderly charge. And he was later charged with pos-session of marijuana in Mountain View, Calif. The police report preserved part of the old legend, however. He still had his whip in his car. Brusha, Brusha, Brush a S3? I 7 Des Moines' Original Warehouse Furniture Showroom Est.

194S r- rnimps Reynaldo Rey Rare in Iowa ic with a record player," said Moore. Frank Falco, owner of Polly's Penthouse in Cedar Rapids, is afraid to hire any comic he can afford. He said his patrons are from 18 to 35 years old, and he added: Can't you see a bad comedian in a club with young kids. They'd throw chairs at him." Show Bands One of the Iowa night clubs with the highest entertainment budget is Pzazz! in Burlington. But Randy Wine-gard, co-owner of the club, said, "My preference is show bands, with strong comedy" as part of its act, one check buys the whole show.

Unlike the vast majority of club officials in the state, however, Winegard does use stand-up comics a few weeks each year. Last March he brought In nationally known Jackie Vernon for a week for about $3,500, he said. Burlington comedy fans are luckier than The majority of weekends in the Des Moines area, more than 50 clubs will have some sort of live entertainment without a stand-up comic in the lot. Some entertainers here will use comedy in their act, but that's not the same as a comic standing up there alone armed only with a microphone and wit. This month, for a change, a comic has been appearing here.

Comic in Town Reynaldo Rey, who introduces himself as a comic from "Hollyweird," has been appearing the past three weeks at the Moulin Rouge, 313 Court formerly the Dailey Planet and before that the Butterfly. He'll be there DAILY 8-5 SUNDAY 1-5 PLANT: 010 Highway 30. bdone, iowa 5o03 -ZIP. 1 rSffiB 'I 1 Zaire's champion Mobuto Sese Seko Muhammad Ali is the overwhelming popular favorite among Zaireans for next week's championship fight with George Foreman. And Zairean President Mobuto Sese Seko's lack of modesty in self promotion perhaps, in part, explains Ali's Zairean popularity; for the poetry-spouting boxer would have to feel some kinship with a man who has developed a nickname for himself that, according to Time magazine, translates, "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and will to win, will go from contest to contest leaving fire in his wake." New friends David Bowie Liz Taylor has usually gotten what she wanted, and she's usually wanted a lot.

This time Cleopatra's roving eye was caught by glitter a full generation gap away 27-year-old Rock Sequin David Bowie. But let not age impede the marriage of true minds. Liz demanded an introduction after seeing her first David Bowie concert. "I'm your greatest fan," crowed Bowie to Liz. Replied herself, "You're fantastic." When she decided she wanted Bowie for her next film, it was an offer he couldn't refuse.

No details yet, but People magazine says it might just be "Sons and Lovers." If ex-hus Richard Burton's new wedding plans, combined with current boyfriend's Henry Wynberg's legal troubles, are bothering Liz as much as some sources say, her eye for David may mean more than movies. Could Bowie's wife, Gyp Jones, be the next Debbie Reynolds? comedy is biggest, says Rey. 5TODAYC CHAIR GRAND invites you to meet Mr. John Steinway, Vice-President of STEINWAY SONS Piano Company. You are Cordially invited to attend an Open House atHOSPE'S Mr.

Music's new Des Moines location, E. 14th Euclid, Oct. 30, 1974, from 2-4 p.m., in honor of John Steinway 11 4 1 6030 The angel, home Themis Wolfe's novel, "Look Homeward. Angel" evokes most childhoods in a general way, but to Wolfe's brother, Fred Wolfe, the work has acquired a reality comparable to his actual past. He often introduces himself: "I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-the character 'Luke' in the book who sold the Saturday Evening Post in Pack Square.

I'm the one who stammers." The last survivor of the immediate family, Fred, now 80, is looking homeward himself. Wolfe told People magazine his tombstone will preserve the identity bequeathed him by his famous brother, reminding visitors that in the resting place of Fred William Wolfe also abides 'Luke' the character. The loneliness of command During his long opposition to British colonial rule, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta was known as "Burning Spear" by fellow tribesmen. Today, 11 years after independence, Jomo has nothing to wave more terrifying than his cane, but he hardly needs that. Seeking re-election to his third term as president, the old freedom fighter finds himself unopposed.

And. for tidiness' sake, his KANU Party is also unopposed but since the opposition was banned in 1969 this may not have surprised Jomo. Choke, gag, ugh The occasion was the 400th anniversary of the lifting of the seige of Leiden and during the celebration, Queen Julianna of the Netherlands picked up a herring with her fingers. Emily Post might gag, but the fish went down just fine with the Queen and her subjects. A TRIBUTE TO A FAMILY TRADITION! HOSPES Mr.

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I ADDRESS. I I CITY. We plan to -STATE. Despite the sterling example of Bucky Beaver, the animal kingdom isn't always tops at taking care of teeth. So New York dentist Myron Finkel found when strolling through Central Park Zoo.

He noted a lion with a bad tooth abscess and offered to help. The zoo bought the tools (including a wooden mallet, a chisel, a section of pipe and a ripsaw!) Now Finkel's clientele has broadened to include a lioness, a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and other zoo denizens. build 1O0O Keo Way Pes Moines. Iowa.