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Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH WINCUELL , Bawling Out the Boss Gets Prankster No Job in Studio By WALTER WINCHELL There, but for the Grace of God, etc. There's a light-hearted hambo famous for the gag he pulled on producer. Making a screen test, the gay devil told the microphone exactly what he thought of the boss, which wasn't much, and then had the test run off for the victim and his associates. The studio chiefs thought the stunt was so funny they spared the ham all further fur-ther work and allowed him plenty of time to repent the laugh In , the local pubs. Everybody who hits this burg Under contract meets the eager host. A minor exec, this bird figures it's good business to put every working , man under obligation to him because be-cause some day he may want to recall re-call the favor. You don't have to know him to get asked to his house. Just be working. When the Invita- , tiona stop, It's a pretty reliable sign that your number is up in Hollywood, make room for tale-spinners up from the pulps. The town Is full of spaniels. The spaniel is, of course, the dog you always al-ways find dosing on the master's doorstep. The human spaniels know what tims ths overlord cuts off for a breather so that'a the time they haunt his ante-room. After a while the great man decides they are faithful, conscientious toilers, so he makes soft shakedowns for them on tha salary sheet. And don't overlook the Hollywood Holly-wood historian. This floppo has a record of every dirty trick, double-cross double-cross and sly job of back-stabbing committed since "Ths Squaw Man," but nobody wanta to listen to him. It's dangerous to be caught in his company, which Is ons of the reasona you never find him on the payrolls where ha might contaminate the newcomers. newcom-ers. In 30 years in pictures he 't has learned everything except tha one thing that would help him to keep hia trap shut Tha unread novelist Is a common Sight He makes it a point to whale eut ona book a year, which nobody svsr troubles to buy but which qualifies him aa a writer and there- . fore worthy of a flicker pay envelope. en-velope. His novels eight years' output era conspicuously lined up above hia desk at tha atudio, but John Hoover and all his busy G-men couldn't find a local who baa aver read ona of them. There aren't so many as there used to be, but the "scholar" la still a pretty active specimen hereabouts. here-abouts. Ha used to button-hole execs and beg them to east Hillary Cruddy, the new sex-appeal six-footer, six-footer, aa Mercutio. Not sura ' whether Mercutio waa n Shakespearian Shake-spearian cltlsen or a new version of the carioca, the tycoons would bide from the scholar and keep . him hired to give the atudio class. Now, with so many top jobs filled with highbrows, tha scholar la gradually being weeded out to A tragic guy is the producer who got what he wanted. Relatives and pals helped him Into the bossing boss-ing chair and they continued to coach him over his blunders. Now his sponsors are all either dead or off the premises and he huddlee in 'hia hideout waiting for the ax to land on him. Meantime he keeps alive eating bicarbonate of soda. Although they are tha last to know it, all the lots are over-run with promising lovelies who'U soon be saying good-bye, going east to "consider "con-sider a play." These dolls, determined deter-mined to make good if it kills them, decide that Impartial sunshine and cordiality to all Is the best ticket But comes option time and the blow-off, which means ths wives of the execs don't like all that sunshine and cordiality. Everybody knows the young blade known sines 1927 aa Mr. Permanent Mortgage. This schemer schem-er plsys poker, bridge and backgammon back-gammon with the atudio heads and, by losing consistently, hss got into each of them eo deeply that they have to keep him pay-rolled to get him off the hook. Jt's okay with him for even though most of his coin goes out he still kseps enough to give him a better living than ha deserves, and besides, it's a pleasure to lose to those charming charm-ing employers. Ths literary romeo la another landmark. He is always available I to squlrs tha arriving ingenues around the spotlighted dens, allowing allow-ing them to get mentioned in the fan columns. When the doll makes good, the studio usually picks a romantic Juvenile for her escort, benching the red-cheeked author until they need him for another newcomer. |