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100 MEN AND A GIRL 237
Admiralty A. V. Alexander, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Ira Eaker, General George Patton. Do you know what my friend General Charles de Gaulle told me?" I started to tell them about my interview.
"Hit the balir Grady interrupted. "You're holding up the game!"
I saw that it was no use; I would have to buckle down or they would trim me. So, as we reached the tenth hole, I determined to recoup my losses by doubling my bets. I teed up my ball and prepared to hit it across a yawning chasm.
I hit a miserable shot; the ball scooted off the tee and into the chasm. A hen could have laid an egg farther than I hit that ball. Gritting my teeth, I stepped up and hit two more duplicates of the first shot. My opponents grinned happily. Finally, with bitterness in my heart, I hit a fourth ball, and that, too, landed in this Valley of Lost Hopes.
At that point Murphy shouted, "Hi, Froggy! What do you hear from De Gaulle?"
Pandemonium! The belly laugh of the month!
I knew then that I was back in Hollywood— that wonderful land of unreality where one is slipped the needle with a laugh.
A short time ago I finished working at Metro in The Hucksters, directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable.
One morning I arrived to shoot a scene that had been revised. Conway's assistant handed me the new pages and I began to study my part. Suddenly I came to a line that stopped me cold. I was supposed to say to Gable, "You must come up to dinner tonight. We're having truffles and champagne."
I stared in complete disbelief. It couldn't be! This was where I had come in twenty-four years ago. It had been truffles and champagne that had caused such a furor between the technical experts in A Woman of Paris. Fortunately we had no technical food experts on The Hucksters, so the dish was never questioned.
While the picture was being shot, I had my fifty-seventh