| Show I IN I N NEW E W YORK Y 0 R K I By JULIA BLANSHARD NEW YORK Oct Od 2 Young Americans who are tramping around for jobs sobs would hardly believe Tom Torn Hamiltons Hamilton's experience Tommy was born wanting to be bean bean bean an actor and seemingly also with all the requisites Hes He's fine looking has hns definite charm wears his clothes like Uke a million and is to the manner born being youngest son of an old aristocratic aristocratic aristocratic aristo aristo- cratic family But he has never suc suc- succeeded in getting anywhere near Broadway having had to be satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied lied with parts in little theater or stock companies Early in the month he was sitting in n a speakeasy with some friends Two men came in and sat at the next table just as Tommy in fine form torm rose gallantly to propose a toast to toa a visiting girl The minute he finished fin- fin shed one of the men inca tapped him on ona a shoulder Could you by any chance be an actor he asked Tom Torn bowed low and assured him that he himself had always thought so 50 so but to date he had lad been alone in his opinion The man man man-a a producer producer laughed laughed and hired him on the spot Hamilton will play the Prince of ot Wales when the new play As Thousands Cheer reaches Broadway STUDY IN LEISURE Americans as a whole undoubtedly undoubted undoubted- ly will have to learn how to use their new leisure to the best advantage But fortunately there are some who seem born with a particular gift for enjoying things that might not amuse arouse the aye rage person The late DwIght Morrows Morrow's sister and Lindy and Annes Anne's aunt Mrs Agnes Morrow is one of these On one of the hottest hottest hot hot- test of of recent days for instance she visited a friend of ot hers who raises fancy sheep at a a. New Jersey auction o of prize ewes and rams which J J. J C. C Penney had imported from England All day long they sat on a bench choking on the dust looking the sheep over Bored Mrs showed definite surprise when her family laughed at her manner of spending the day How on earth could I be bored when I never before knew a single thing about sheep she r re re- re plied I tell teU you I learned all about their sway backs long faces and a lot lotmore lotmore lotmore more than you'd ever believe in just that one day Who knows maybe some day Ill I'll have to earn my roy living and I might want to raise sheep ONCE AN ACTOR ALWAYS ALWAYS- That old theatrical tradition that blunders or miscues stage on-stage must be hidden from the thC audience as rapidly as 3 possible seems to carry carryover over into life when really good actors actors' and ac actresses actresses ac- ac tresses get together Anne daughter actress-daughter of ot the famous ItalIan Ital I Ital ian sculptor the late Marcel tells the following anecdote of I dins din's Landing where Katharine C Cor Cornell rnell r- r nell leased Annes Anne's house for five I years ears I Before playing in The Green Hat Miss Cornell had sunk all her available available avail avail- able cash in two plays which flopped lopped and she and her husband Guthrie McClintic McClintic Mc- Mc Clintic dispensed with servants and did all their own work One Saturday night they had 15 guests including man many stage celebrities celebrities ties tics and Miss Mw Cornell had been in the kitchen cooking most the of-the day Finally her cheeks flushed Miss Cornell Cornell Cornell Cor Cor- nell appeared in the door bearing aloft a n huge roast with appetizingly browned potatoes all around it it and announced Dinner Is served At just that moment stooping to place the roast on the table Miss Cornell tripped on the rug the platter platter platter plat plat- ter sUpped slipped out of her hands and the roast and every single potato rolled onto the floor Winthrop Ames with exceeding grace swooped down gathered up the roast deposited it on the platter r ronce once more George Arliss rescued ed a afew afew afew few potatoes from under the serving table other guests retrieved the rest someone arranged them neatly around the roast once once more someone else lifted the platter proudly to the table ta table ta- ta ble and all sat down to eat cat as if nothing had happened No one commented commented com corn merited upon the incident the entire evenin evening |
