Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1946)

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Will pay postman price, plus postage and 20% Fed. tax. After 10 days. I may return Rings for refund of money. Set No. 4 Eng. □ Wed. □ Set No. 16 Eng. O Wed. O I I My ring size is (or send paper strip to size) j I I Name Address.. City was a very discouraged young man. But instead of loafing around home and nursing his grief, he started on the rounds of the casting agents for Broadway plays. He had barely poked his nose into Sara Enright's office on 42nd Street, when he found himself on his way to Brock Pemberton's office on 44th Street, with a green slip in his hand, listing his name, past experience, and the part she was suggesting him for. name twins . . . Pemberton handed him a script of his new play, "Janie," pointed to some lines, and said, "Read them." Knowing he was up for his first Broadway part, Frank quaked in his shoes and he tried to control the nervous quiver in his voice. When he finished reading and handed the script back to Pemberton, his palms were moist with perspiration. Pemberton didn't say a word, just sat there meditatively smoking a big cigar. Frank didn't know whether to go or stay. After what seemed like an eternity, Pemberton said: "Okay. We'll let you know." The next day Sara Enright phoned him at a friend's apartment in Greenwich Village. "You're in!" she annnounced. The part was practically a walk-on, but he was to understudy the part of Scooper Nolan, Janie's hometown boyfriend, who had all the laugh lines. That looked like a swell break. But Carl Gose, who played Scooper, was a healthy young man and Frank never got to do the part. On September 10, 1942, 16-year-old Franklin Latimore Kline, Jr., as he was then known, had his first and only Broadway opening night, in "Janie" at the Henry Miller Theater. Tom Drake, incidentally, had the juvenile lead in it. The next day, Frank's name was mentioned in the reviews. 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Leventhal is looking for people for 'Room Service' which he's sending around the subway circuit. Phil Loeb is playing the lead. I'll talk to him about you." Frank got the part of Leo Davis, the playwright (that's the same part another Frank — Sinatra— played in "Step Lively," a musical version of "Room Service"), and left the cast of "Janie." For several months, he toured the subway circuit. During a scene in "Room Service," Frank's pals in the play were supposed to try to pull off his trousers, against his will. One night he forgot to wear his shorts and fought the pants-snatching with such gusto that the audience burst into applause. "If I can ever repeat the sincerity of that performance, I'll win an Oscar," he says. When these tours were over, he got the break he'd been hoping for — a few weeks on Broadway with a long part, as Larry Field in "Dark Eyes," and then a tour Qfcourseyou kwdboutMdol BUT HAVE YOU TRIED nr Befairwith yourself! 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