Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1946)

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He'd played pro baseball and football and he'd even picked up a few bucks modeling for a sculptor, cashing in on his body beautiful and the three varsity letters he won at Cornell and St. John's. his first great role . . . But his conscience was poking him around the bed at night and maybe that's why he tried this acting effort first. It wasn't anything exactly to cover the front pages of the Sunday drama sections — in fact, as Dane remembers, he was Third Assistant Bearer of Spears and Number Ten in the Chorus of Off-Stage Voices — just the same, he thought he ought to take it seriously. But it's hard to take eight dollars, his weekly check, very seriously when a chance arrives to pick off $75 for an afternoon of fun. That's how he found out about realism in acting. Because right in the middle of his first week of the artistic life, up popped a chance to play with a pro team against the Brooklyn Eagles at Ebbetts Field and there was $75 practically in his pocket. Well, the only thing Dane could think of to do was see if he really had any hidden talent. He didn't stop to consider that he was picking a tough audience of professionals for his dramatic debut. He just walked right into the theater before the afternoon show, put on a long face, summoned some crocodile tears and a quavering voice, and when everyone gathered around, sobbed out that his mother was desperately ill. "Why you poor boy, go right home!" chorused the cast. But Dane mumbled some corny crack, between sobs, that the show must go on, and worked up even more sympathy. They packed him out the stage door and Dane hopped a subway right out to the field. Only right in the middle of the scrimmage he tangled with a tough tackle on the Eagles and when he picked himself up his lip was split, his nose flattened and a black eye was spreading over his face like an eclipse of the moon. He thought that would cook him for sure at the evening performance when he showed up with the telltale scars of combat. But when they asked him what happened he spieled out a long tale about rushing out for the doctor and running into a door. Even that got over and worked up so much sympathy that Dane felt ashamed of himself. Of course, they weren't tossing breaks Dane's way right and left in those early days. For a long time he was plenty lucky to find himself billed in fine print down at the bottom of the program under "Ensemble." Clark wasn't choosy, and maybe, too, he wasn't good. But he never lacked enthusiasm. He landed one job heckling from the audience in one of those audience participation plays they're always trying around Broadway. Dane's big moment was to rise up out of the pit at a strategic moment and yell, "Shut up, you big bum!" Then he had to race down the aisle, jump up on the stage and wrestle one of the actors around the stage. 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