| Show Actor Admits Walking Out on One Scene Where Real Dagger Was Used in Caesar By fly y Er ErsKine Johnson I HOLLYWOOD HOLLY NEA The Laugh Parade John Hoyt the character actor I I admits walking out on only one show during his long acting acting- career It was Orson Wells Welles' Julius Caesar in which Hoyt played I Brutus In th the interests of ot realism John recalls Orson substituted a I real dagger in m the a assassination I scenes In the interest of self- self preservation I took look it on the lam Mack Sennett recalling Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywoods Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywood's Holly Holly- woods wood's good old days daysOn On a Monday fonday morning one of oC our stars had automobile trouble so he came to the studio on a II streetcar He and John Barleycorn Barley Barley- corn had had a bi big week eek end and andl he was vas in m an extremely nervous condition as he sat at in the car trying trying try try- trY I ing ing- to read the morning paper We Ve were using a 3 snake charmer at the studio and she sat beside the actor She always carried a few of her pets with ith her They were harmless king snakes s. s Suddenly a snake e came out of the ladys lady's coat crawled over the shoulder of the star with the hang- hang ox OHr er and started reading the paper paper with him The star was a little late for work that morning The butt of most of the current practical jokes at U. U I J. J is young joung daze a Tony Curtis who is being being be be- ing mg zoomed to stardom The other day Tony walked into the studio publicity department I hugging a photograph of Janet Janet Leigh and swooned I She must love me mo Look she ga e me an autographed picture It was inscribed To Dear Doai Tony Next time Tony went to the publicity pub pub- pUb pUb-I department every desk and I wall in every office was decorated I with photographs of Janet Leigh all endearingly inscribed to various vari van vanous various ous press agents and studio executives tives When Ava Gardner first came to I M-G-M M from North Carolina via ia a I Broadway modeling job she sweated sweat sweat- sweat sweat-I ed through diction lessons to drop diopa a heavy southern accent One day Director George Sidney rehearsing her for a scene in Show Boat stopped and said Its great except for one thing your your southern accent sounds phony Ava is back with a diction teacher recovering reco the lost accent An independent press agent who has been trying for months to collect collect collect col col- lect a long long- overdue fee from a n noted producer thought things I were all straightened out when hen the producer offered him a contract I Ifor for further publicity sen services ser ices Then I the press agents agent's lawyer explained the fine print saying This is the strangest contract contractIve contractIve contractIve I Ive I've ever read In one paragraph the producer agrees to pay you the i 2 2500 OO he owes you in another I paragraph he takes an option to pay you ou the 2500 and in another paragraph he claims you owe o him 2500 The fights fight's still on Trumpet king Louis Armstrong is on a close weekly budget self- self imposed because of his slippery fingers His business manager pays pars all his living expenses and Louis LoUI gets only a small amount of cash for pocket et mone money and can sign no checks |
