Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

Mr. Smith Goes to Hollywood [Continued from page 31] Their first season was so successful that the young actors cleared $9,000. The next season the young Thespians decided to build their own theater. The contractors they hired proved too slow for the job. Opening night was announced and tickets were sold, but the building was not near completion. The actors, themselves, put on the roof, installed the seats and built the stage — besides rehearsing and constructing scenery. Needless to add, they opened on schedule. The theater had been built at the end of a pier on which there were also bath houses. The actors ran these, and also opened a nightclub in the theater. Members of the cast doubled as entertainers, waitresses, bus boys — everything but cooks — in the nightclub. For three summers their theater-nightclub-bath house business prospered. Meanwhile, a leading lady was discovered by the group — Margaret Sullavan. After graduation from Harvard, Smith moved his stock company to Baltimore where success continued. One of their biggest projects was staging Lysistrata, a Greek comedy strongly pacifistic, but also a bit bawdy. Easter season was approaching and the group announced Don Marquis' play of the Crucifixion, The Dark Hours. But the Bishop of Maryland made a public announcement that "any company which presented Lysistrata was not fit to do this Holy play." As a result, the public stayed away in droves, and the company lost its entire capital and promptly folded. So Smith went to Broadway in 1932. Kent clicked after the usual number of bit parts and soon had leads in plays including Spring in Autumn, The Drums Begin, Saint Joan, Seen but Not Heard, The Wingless Victory and A Doll's House. In 1936 he was brought to Hollywood by Irving Thalberg to test for Romeo and Juliet, but nothing came of it and he returned to New York. It was while playing with Jane Cowl in Old Acquaintance that a Warner scout waved a contract under his nose. He came to Hollywood and was tested, but his option was allowed to lapse. R-K-O .however, had seen the test and lost no time in signing him to a contract. Then for months he had no assignments. The studio refused to use him in bit parts, waiting for the right leading role. Eventually he worked three months on a highly technical training picture for the Army. That was the end of vacationing. Immediately he was assigned to the romantic lead opposite Simone Simon in The Cat People; then into a lead with Bonita Granville in Hitlers Children. This Land Is Mine followed directly, with Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. He will have little time to waste from now on. Kent has been married six years to a non-professional, who, he says, is "the prettiest girl in town." The Smiths have found new fields to conquer. 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