Further Adventures by Jon Stephen Fink

effects have been Earth-shattering for instance whole islands wiped off the face of the map. The shape of coastlines changed. Jungles buried under water. Thousands of villagers drowned etc. Huge Causes = Huge Effects this is true.
    One of the main causes of a tidal wave Scientists learned could be a earthquake on the bottom of the ocean. Picture that! The sand & rocks under the middle of the Ocean lurch like a broken card table or in the case of volcanic activity split open like a hot melon! The Energy of it the sheer Force of it pushes out the water far & wide so there is your Tidal Wave set in motion. The glassy face of rolling doom. Picture some peaceful tropical island stretched out in the hot Sun then a little stir of breeze. The palm trees shimmy—a spray of dry white sand fans up from the beach because there is a wind now—& a roar is rising up from the deep water—the shallow water in the lagoon starts to hum—now over the reef the Ocean just curls up this sea monster up on its purple haunches tumbles down roaring so loud it crushes rocks down to sand sand down to mud—it is the only Sound anybody can hear until deep water buries everything alive.
    Scientists also Insurance Companies I believe call a tidal wave a Act of God & by me that is a pretty good description of the cause & effect of all my feelings about Annie LaSalle.
    I was not calm enough to concentrate on anything else especially that week’s portrayal of The Green Ray. My wandering eyes just followed anything in the room that moved—the flight path of a fly or a falling Speck of dust or somebody’s shoes going by it did not matter what. This was a problem for me since my Performance suffered terrible in what was supposed to be another very exciting action-packed Episode called The Return of King Crime.
    Leon Kern was the first person who told me out loud that some kind of oomph was missing from my style which fact he advised me duringa Scene between David & Annie which did not include me so I strayed over to Leon’s side of the room. Leon said he had to multiply his Sound Effects to compensate for my weak character that night what was wrong with me? “I’ve heard Lucy Least order a bowl of creamed corn with more verve,” Leon said to me with one eye on the Action in the studio. He rattled the doorknob in the miniature door frame on his desk. He creaked open the miniature door.
     
    ROSALIND: This is a surprise. It’s Dr. Denton isn’t it?
    HORVATH: Please don’t stand on ceremony Miss Bentley. My name’s Howard.
    ROSALIND: If you want my father I’m afraid—
    HORVATH: Actually…it’s you I want.
     
    This was a pretty sneaky move by Horvath since he knew for a cast-iron fact that Rosalind Bentley and Peter Tremayne had a tiff in the last Scene & Peter stomped off which was why I was in the Sound Effects booth with Leon Kern. I did not have to be out by the microphone until right after the message from our Sponsor.
    While Bernhardt pretended that Capt. O’Shaughnessy ate a bowl of Spiller’s High Energy Buckwheat Breakfast Flakes first thing when he went on duty every morning Mr. Argyll reminded me that I was supposed to be convincing out there & I sounded like I was telephoning my lines from the planet Ming.
     
    GREEN RAY: Captain I can’t wait to get my hands on Horvath.
     
    I said that with the wrong Emotion in it I made it sound like I was falling in love with my Arch Foe. “You’ve got a big scene coming up,” Mr. Argyll warned me, “and if it doesn’t inspire the youth of the nation Ray I swear to Jesus—P. K. Spiller is going to blame you !”
    Here is something about Acting—you’ve got to throw some human Emotion into it even if the Character is acting phonus bolonus. The feeling has to be a True one nor it does not matter if a person is portraying Abraham Lincoln or a little green man from Mars or the Nation’s Number 1 Crime Stopper a person has to find a genuine & sincere emotion to portray. I believe that people