Hollywood (1942)

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Oh, I'm not going to deny it — the last few falls, swings and jumps in Spy Smasher were tough. But the boys in the production crew were pretty pleasant about it; they got me a pair of crutches to hobble around on between scenes, and assured me they'd provide all the arnica, liniment and splints that would be needed." Nice boys! They probably cured Richmond of making any more serials for a long time to come. "They did not!" he avowed. "As I said before, you really learn the picture business making serials, and, as soon as I can regain the use of a couple of my necessary muscles, I'm going to shop around for another one. I had a lot of fun making Spy Smasher, and I'm looking forward to another one like it!" Which will give you a sketchy idea of the type of character this Richmond really is. He's a Minneapolis boy, having been permitted to make his earthly debut in that city December 23. 1906. He went to the University of Minnesota and St. Thomas College of St. Paul, at which institutions he distinguished himself in football and swimming. He also pulled an oar on the Golden Gophers' crew one season, which may be one explanation for his ability to absorb so much punishment before the Spy Smasher cameras. Actually, Richmond has no excuse whatsoever for having become an actor, since his father, a real estate operator, had the wherewithal to enable his son to break into some profession a shade less generous with hard knocks. But Kane took a job in a Minneapolis motion picture exchange as a booker — and that was that. In no time at all. or a fraction thereof, he was getting himself involved in the Minneapolis Little Theater movement, the local branch of which had been started by an undertaker and a lawyer and, accordingly, given the delightful name of Skull & Crossbones! And, as inevitable in the lives of citizens whose work gives them any contact with film whatsoever, there came a day when Kane decided he ought to see Hollywood. After all, how could a guy handle the stuff if he didn't know the circumstances under which it was produced? His company agreed. They sent him to Hollywood — but they cautioned him to mind his "P's" and also his "Q's." It was all right to ogle a star, they said, but keep a firm eye on the booking business, too! Need we go on? Hollywood took one squint at this big handsome slab of male, did a quick double-take, and promptly told him to throw away his business cards and brief-case. "I scarcely had time to comb the prairie grass out of my hair," he remarked, "before they had me doing shorts. And, much to my amazement and amusement, the darn things clicked. From that I drifted into twelve of the 'Leather Pushers' series, and then into juvenile leads at MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. Then . . ." Yes, yes? "Then I quit," he said. He quit! Can you beat it? "Yeah, I guess I just got fed-up, or something, for I spent the next two years adventuring and knocking about the world. As a matter of fact, I spent a good part of this period in the Dutch East Indies; that's why I'm particularly concerned with the way the war's been going in the Pacific. I've got a lot of friends down there." But, of course, there was the inevitable return? "Oh, sure. I came back finally, signed up with 20th Century-Fox, and did Tailspin, with Alice Faye and Connie Bennett, Winner Take All and The Chicken Wagon Family, among others, and eventually quit again to do some free-lancing." And, as a free-lance, Richmond has been doing all right, thank you. He's got two studios bidding for his services right now, on a long-term contract basis, but he hates to tie himself down; after all, he might want to go back to the South Pacific. As for hobbies, they can be described, insofar as Kane Richmond is concerned, in one word: athletics. He shoots a most respectable game of golf, finding that day lost when he isn't in the low 70s; he swims like an electric eel (In 1923, he set a Northwest record in the 100-yardfreestyle and lost, that same year to Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller by a hair!), and he can sail a boat like Columbus himself. One of Kane's cousins, incidentally, was the author of the Bowditch navigation laws, whatever they are, and he confessed to the writer that Bowditch was the name he was given the day he was born. Richmond the one he was given the day he was born again — in Hollywood. He's a nice guy. this Richmond. Don't believe us? Then see Spy Smasher. ■ THE JAPS SAY . . . "One day we shall fight against America." — Baron Giichi Tanaka, former JapPremier, speaking in 1927! AMERICANS SAY . . . ... by those words, Baron Tanaka admits the Japs were preparing for this fight years ago! Let's show him how useless their preparations were — by buying War Bonds and Stamps noiv and making them wish they'd never heard of America. 54