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Show Actors Think Schmeling Can Lick Louis Again After Watching Joe Spar for Pictures took time to talk fights, his first love, and there ia no one who (CofitlniMS mi following Pajrr ) By HENRY MrLEMORE t'nitrd Preaa Sporte Writer HOLLYWOOD, Dec. J If you were riding through the Sahara desert seated between the fore and aft humps of a camel, and suddenly came upon a world series se-ries game between the Yankees and Giants, you'd be surprised, wouldn't you? Or. if you rode the same camel around the loop In Chicago, tha people of Chicago would be surprised. sur-prised. Wouldn't they? Ural Big Kurpriae All right, now add your surprise to their surprise and you get niy surprise of today when I rounded a certain corner on the movie lot of the Brothers Wsrner. Just before be-fore I rounded thst corner I would have swora that nothing short of the sight of a human being be-ing making a tree would have aurprlsed ma. Because In ths walk around the atudlo of the Brothers Warner (Tom. Dick and Harry. I believe are their names) I had seen some amazing sights. Errol Flynn, in the green tights and chin beard of Robin Hood lighting a cigaret for Carols Lombard. Lom-bard. n modern evening dress. Wayne Morris leaning out of a roadster to talk with Bette Davis, dressed in tha crinoline of a day when the bora was there to stay. " George Brent, in riding britches . and a dressing gown, practicing a southern accent as he ate a new England broiled dinner In ths commissary. ' Looked Like Ghost Yea, I thought' I waa about , ahockproof. Then I turned that certain corner and there before my very eyes, stood Senor Francis Albertanti. I would not have been as surprised sur-prised had 1 seen the Statue of Liberty leaning over and pulling down her marble girdle. Senor Francis Albertanti Is as . much a part of New York as a subway rush, the Battery, the Bronx, and the Aquarium. Some say that Senor Albertanti has been In New York ever sines ths Indians In-dians sold it that he waa thrown In for boot. Others maintain that when old Madison Square Garden Gar-den was raxed he jumped out of the cornerstone. . Be that as it may. to see my old friend Albertanti standing out of doors, exposed to tha merci- less glare of the aun. and at the ungodly hour of 10 in the morn-InK. morn-InK. shook me to my foundations. Albertanti, who dreaded the sun aa though. Its rays were daggers, and the fresh air aa thought it were poison gas! Albertanti, who has left Manhattan island only when hia work as promotion man-.aged man-.aged for auch assorted clients as Al Smith, Jack Dempaey. Jim Braddock and nearly all of the other sports celebrities you caa ' name, forced him to. I rushed up to him as fast as any man would approach what he thought might be a ghoaL Just In Between "What are you doing here. Francis, and what are you doing out of doors?" . "L" ha replied with dignity, "am on my way from one indoors to another indoors." And so. indoors, beneath tha deep shade of a papier mache medieval castle, he answered my many questions as to why he was in Hollywood. "Broadway ia the only street In the world." he said, "and Broadway's Broad-way's out here now. Everybody's hero, and just as soon as something some-thing is done about the sun and fresh air. which are dangerous, it'll be aa healthful out here as ia the back room at Mickey Walker's." Walk-er's." Talks About Fights Senor Albertanti. now dealing in 'movie atars instead of athletes he's as versatile as a Boy Scout knife, the senor i. led me everywhere, every-where, but ia betweea sets ho r Joe Unimpressive In Film Sparring ( ComiHiim fraaa Preeeehie' Pm) known the business any better than the lutl tlf of a man from New York'a Mulberry Band. earned Heavyweight Champion of the World Jo Lout, who waa her recently making a plctura. Three heata, three heat, that'a all." Albertantl said. "That'a all It will uka Schmeling to knock Mm out. Ha had to do soma parring In lha plctura ha mada, and the guya who worked with him said they could pick him up arid throw him around, ba waa ao weak." |