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A lot of Hollywood stories come close to writing themselves. The place is loaded with off-beat personages (off-beat either from birth or because they have deliberately made themselves that way) who can't help being good copy even if they'd rather not. Nor does it follow that such folks have nothing but their off-beatedness on the ball. To help them come up with thousand dollar bills nestled behind their Puckish ears.
It's a pity no one bothered to tell the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation about Hollywood's director-producer, Mike Curtiz, before they spent a sizeable amount of money developing their word scrambler. A word scrambler is a device that takes conversation, tosses it like a salad, and delivers it overseas battered into an unrecognizable condition. Such buffeting insures conversational privacy, for no one listening in while the words are en route can make head or tail of them until they reach their destination and are sorted out by another machine.
If it could have hired Curtiz, I. T. & T. would have had working for them, ready-made, the world's leading word scrambler. In a community that has lifted assault and battery on the spoken word to a fine art, Mike is the outstanding practitioner of such mayhem. He had to be a top word wrestler to outgrapple competitors like Sam Goldwyn ("Include me out") ; the King brothers ("We are standing on the brink of an abscess") ; and Gregory Ratoff, Hollywood's juiciest and most unintelligible splutter er.
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