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P€TlDL€TOn PflOmOTER
Nat's £>een a jack-of-all-trades and master of — all! Here he is with Jessie Matthews in "Gangway."
BY ROBERT McILWJUNE
MANY A poor, benighted soul has talked himself out of a good job, but Nat Pendleton has talked himself into one after another even if , at the time he was in a conversational mood, there wasn't a job in sight. Yep, when it comes to personal promoting, our Nat puts the circus barker to shame with the confident spiel he gives his favorite product — himself. But — and here's where he has you — he's good, and he knows it.
Pendleton recently returned from abroad, where he occupied himself making "Gangway" with Jessie Mathews. And so, we wanted to know his initial impression of Europe. The question seemed to slightly irk him.
"Hey," he said, "this wasn't my first trip across! It was my tenth. I was over before the war ; in business in Lisbon. I worked for an oil company here and they sent me over, originally to Egypt, but the Big Fight broke out and the Arab who was in charge there had ideas of confiscating the plant, so he didn't want me around. The company then sent me to Portugal and it was there that I ran amuck.
"I spoke Portuguese, so I took over the firm's books. The old man who had been there for years returned to find a new system of bookkeeping in effect."
"What sort of bookkeeping?" we asked curiously.
"Well — you know — bookkeeping. Anyway, to get on, the fellow ranted and raved, threatening to have me fired. I told him that I was running the show and if he didn't like it, he knew what he could do! In fact, if I decided to have a bon fire and light up all the tanks, it was strictly my affair.
"The funny part was the guy took me literally and wired the company that I was about to set fire to the works. I got word to return to America at once, so I cabled that if they wanted to fire me, to do it and allow me the passage money back. They did just that and the old gent tried to give me passage on a boat that took about twenty days and only cost eighty dollars fare. D'ya think a Pendleton would stand for that? I wouldn't and told them the only line I'd sail on was the Spanish. They were the only boats that weren't fired on — to say nothing of their being the most expensive. Anyway, I got the passage money and with it went into business in Lisbon.
"1 had quite a business, too — importing and exporting." To our inquiry of what sort of business, Nat replied, "Why I exported goods and imported goods. Pendleton Importers and Exporters, was the firm." Well, that took care of that!
After some time, Nat returned ( Continued on page 85)
Nat can get himself a job-even it there isn't one to he had!
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