| Show Victor Speaks Softly When Off Stage By ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLL HOLLYWOOD It Y It It was difficult to believe that the massive lumbering lumbering lumbering lum lum- bering loud guffawing Victor Mc- Mc Ic- Ic of the screen was the guy SUY we were having lunch with The beloved brute the six foot three man of brawn with hands bigger than most actors actor's heads speaks so softly you ou have to strain to hear him He ordered a lettuce and tomato salad and confessed between dainty bites that hes he's a good dancer a meticulous dresser and that hes he's afraid of or nothing except rats the rats the legged four-legged variety They scare me mc he said Im lil like e a woman when she sees sec a mouse I start climbing But sometimes Vic Vie said being a big guy has its disadvantages Its a little mans man's world he said Beds always too short telephone booths like straitjackets and clothes never quite elastic clastic enough at the seams Automatically Automatically Automatically cally you come to realize that you cant can't blow up like the other fel fel- fel- fel lows No matter what the provocation provocation provocation provo provo- cation we have to be bib big and gentle Vic Vie is just a little guy at home though Son Andy is 6 feet 7 Mrs is 6 feet 2 A couple of brothers are 6 feet 5 The home has extra high doorways and extra big beds Their Filipino houseboy looks like one of Singers Singer's midgets Vic Vie was wearing tan and white shoes brown flannels a sport coat that could double for or a trout lure and a yellow tie He said he hc was wasas wasas wasas as meticulous as your old maiden aunt about his wardrobe Even on Sunday afternoons at athis athis athis his acre ranch near Fresno he likes to wear a white coat and gray flannels he confessed real life adventures make Hollywoods Hollywood's make-believe make concoctions seem pale by compari compari- son No character hes he's ever brought to the screen is half as as interesting as the man himself He fought in the Boer war at the age of 14 prospected for pearls in Australia panned gold and silver silver silver sil sil- sil- sil ver in Canada was a professional proCessional fighter meeting World Champion in an exhibition bout boutin in Vancouver in 1909 fought in m World War Var I wrestled with one of his brothers in vaudeville and knocked about in the east for several several several sev sev- eral years as a soldier of fortune before he broke into pictures He played a prize fighter in his first film an English movie titled Call of the Road I didn't know a thing about acting he said but it was good dough One part led to another I figured I was getting gelting away with murder and it would be only a matter of time before they discovered discovered discovered ered I wasn't an actor Hollywood couldn't quite agree with Vic Vie however awarding him himan himan himan an academy Oscar for his performance perform perform- ance in The Informer I guess that was the biggest thrill of my life Vic Vie said I had always wanted to be the champion prize fighter of the world I hung up my gloves when I I realized I would never make it The night they handed me that Oscar I looked at it and said to myself Well Vell at I least Im I'm a champion actor actor- champ for a year |
