Hollywood (1942)

"They say I have to go on being unregenerate," he says. "That suits me. So long as I make money out of being unregenerate, unregenerate I'll be." He has a way of talking in everyday phraseology. He likes interviews, but reserves the privilege of talking his own kind of talk. He has an abiding fear of being considered an actor on parade. "Some actors have a way of thinking they have to be something they're not," he says. "They talk about things they know nothing about and cover their lack of information with a glib line of stereotyped conversation. If I don't know anything about a subject I'd rather listen, provided someone else will talk about it and teach me something. If they can't teach me anything, I'd rather talk myself. I like to talk." His unabashed admission had a pleasant ring. There probably isn't anybody living who isn't fascinated with the sound of his own voice, but few of them admit it and many suppress the weakness under a gloomy, owlwise exterior. Bogey doesn't. He was wearing a green herringbone suit. Someone arrived in the party with one almost like it. They mentioned it to Bogey. He looked down at his jacket, casually. "Say, they are almost alike, aren't they?" he said. "Funny thing, my other suit's something like this one, too." His other suit? A Hollywood actor who commands a salary with muscles protruding all over it and is one of the most popular, socially, in the movie colony, talking about his other suit! A by-sitter called his attention to the inconsistency. "Yeh," Bogey said, in that slow way he has of speaking, inside his mouth, as if afraid his wrords might tumble out on a bit of tablewear and fracture it, "I used to have three suits, but one wore out. I never get any chance to buy clothes. Besides, not having a lot of suits saves time. There are never any minutes lost figuring out which one to wear. While one's being pressed, I wear the other." Bogey started his stage career as a goggle-eyed juvenile. In Saturday's Children and Cradle Snatchers the down of adolescence was soft on his Thespian chin. He never liked that sort of role and was about to quit the stage, but after he had become a gangster in Petrified Forest, he decided he'd stay on and make a career of sneering. Seeing Bogey in person for the first time, one gets a surprise. On the screen he looks hollow cheeked and sunken eyed, a sort of skull face type designed for the utmost in sinisteria. Actually, there's still a trace of the round-faced juvenile in his appearance. Women who yearn for the screen copy would swoon completely over the original. He has friendly and vaguely provocative eyes, a flicker of a smile that won't leave his lips, and a mysterious tilt of the brows that would promise adventure to a female bacteriologist. Back to the subject of his career. He had something more to say about that. "To be successfully bad in pictures, you have to be good and bad. That's when the hisses become cheers and the snarls become smiles. Say, how about somebody writing a picture for me called Hiss the Boys Good-bye?" H ♦<l>. Tve lost my heart to a little rascal in feather pants l" e^A LINDA DARNELL, 20th Century-Fox Star last seen in "RISE AND SHINE" CANARIES are Hollywood's hobby sensation! More and more, the stars are taking canaries into their hearts and their homes. Even on movie sets, you are likely to hear a goldenvoiced canary lifting everyone's spirits with his happy song. One of these gay little troubadours is a fascinating pet that you, too, should enjoy. A canary takes but little care and will give you many joyous hours of companionship that helps dispel worry. Send for a beautifully illustrated 76-page book ori CANARIES. It's the book the movie stars use— and it's FREE ! Simply mail your name and address, on a penny post card, to the R. T. French Company, 2jSi Mustard Street , Rochester, N.Y. <Jn flmyttfffsa FRENCH'S BIRD SEED IS THE FAVOR/TE ... 4 to I Keep your canary happy, healthy and singing. FRENCH'S Bird Seed (with Bird Biscuit included FREE) supplies 11 aids to song and health. Today — and every day — feed your canary FRENCH'S. j& THE LARGEST SELLING BIRD SEED IN THE U : N THE U. S. 47