Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-22 | Page 9 | Screen Butlers Ban Butlers of Own

Screen Butlers Ban Butlers of Own HOLLYWOOD Nov 22 UP Its It's It Ita a jolly odd paradox Hollywoods Hollywood's movie butlers object to having buters butlers butlers but but- lers ers in their own homes Ernest Cossart Arthur and Eric Blore all haughty door doo openers and name callers on th the screen agreed today they need n no buttling done for them in private privat life ife As a matter of fact said Cossart Cossart Cossart Cos Cos- sart were probably afraid of living living liv liv- ing ng in the contempt of our butler if f we had one He might suggest that we dont don't conduct ourselves on the screen a aall at atall atall all as a butler should Too man many wisecracks s and entirely too muc much mugging you know It is Cossart's belief born i in years of trouping that all all an an actor needs is a trunk and a check boo book He likes to keep a che lc k book i ionly if only to admire the pretty engrav engrav- ing For his role of Bob Hopes Hope's se servant servant ser ser- vant in the current comedy Never Neve Say Die Cossart admitted h he stretches the mold of form a bi bit His explanation Theres nothing funny about a proper butler or anything very in interesting interesting interesting in- in either Hed He'd be a colossal colossa bore to a movie audience