Show Comedy Test Starts Horne I By Dy JOHN JOlIN TODD HO HOLLYWOOD L L 00 D INS INS INS-Al- Al Although though hes he's probably not aware of 1 it Leo McCarey 1 is s responsible for the Hollywood progress sI of Victoria Horne Home from New York In less than two years she's made 14 pictures and that's that pretty s steady endy going Leo made the te test t that brought Miss 1 Horne Home her jobs It was a comedy test as an oafish maid for tor forGoing forGoing Going My Way Vay the Bing Cros Cros- by Barry Fitzgerald academy prize winn winner McCarey congratulated congratulated the tho actress on her performance performance perform perform- ance but she Me never got to play It it the entire sequence quen e being cut out the following day However the test has proved an open sesame nt at various studios so Miss Home Horne would like to to m meet et McCarey again one day and thank him Currently she's h po portraying r t r a n g Daisy Gingras confidante of Olivia de Havilland in Paramount's To Each His Own Own- which which Mitch Mitch Mitchell ell Leisen is dir directing tIng with a 8 cast of principals Including John Lund Phillip Terry Bill Goodwin and Mary Anderson Daisy has a bronx accent Miss Mist Horne Home has not But she's acquiring ing Ing one one Sh using She's using as her model a n. popular character performer Sam Levene with whom she ahe he appeared appeared ap ap- appeared In Dinner at Eight once upon 0 a time Born in New York City Miss Home Horne at the age of 16 entered the American Academy of ot Dramatic Dramatic Dramatic Dra Dra- matic Arts Art in order to satisfy a childhood ambition to become an actress She also studied with Eleanor Mish tIsh well-known well coach Her early experience was was ns gained In stock with Roland G. G Dwards who had a a. flourishing company In Newark Newark- More tore stock followed until un un- un- un til Ui M Miss ss Home Horne felt herself ready for fora aNew a a New York debut This took place with Constance Collier Comer in in Aries Is Ready Then she heard about Leslie Howards Howard's H wards plans to to do Hamlet the following seasons season Miss Horne Home didn't let the fact that Howard waS was In England bother her She borrowed the money and took a ship to Europe where she Jho InterI Interviewed interviewed Inter Inter- viewed Howard who was BO so thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- I intrigued with Miss Homes Home's ambition that he promised promised prom prom- her the the role role of the player queen But the deal deaf dc 1 failed to go through once Howard landed In In- New YorK to start tart rehearsals One of or the backers backer had promised the player f. f t f. queen to another M Mard J ard and apologized profusely The longest run Miss 1 Horn played was In lit Life Lito With F p uJ Two vo and a a. half years yean Ib proudly in the New York Z Zand and on the tho road with 1 Lillian GIsh J 1 |