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I Like
-To Interview
The Slightly Mad Ones, The OfF-Stage Actors, The Comedians
By HELE
THIS is an odd business, you know, whe you come to think of it — this one interviewing people. In the first plao you are privileged to walk in (b appointment) upon a total stranger and as him, without -fear (at least, without much fear) c being socked in the nose, questions which his owj mother would hesitate to put to him.
There isn't much he can do about it excep sort of squirm.
Then, of course, there are the lunches. Actors after all, are acting most of the time and the mos convenient period for most of them to allow yoi to cross-examine them is at the noon hour. I has occurred to me at times that, instead of ou getting money for eating our way through ali these conversations, we really should pay for the concession.
Despite these advantages, however, I may as well admit at the beginning that I am not a good interviewer. I never get a "hot" story. Nobody ever breaks down and tells me All. If he does become garrulous over the lamb chops and melba toast and reveal an intimacy here and there, I am so overcome with embarrassment that I am likely to forget my Duty to my Public and try to stop him.
The Appalling Thing
I AM still, after some years of experience in this strange business, a bit appalled at times at the things that people appear not only willing, but even determined, to tell me for publication.
The thing, however, is not entirely made up of drawbacks. You make the acquaintance of many weird and wonderful people — and you can become more intimately (perhaps I should say more thoroughly) acquainted with a person during an hour's interview than in weeks and weeks of casual meetings.
Lots of times it is fun. It is fun when a person puts on "the act" for you. Most of the people with whom we have to deal are experts at this, {Continued on page g6)