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You are fired.” Catherine says, admiringly, “He hired me with a one-two-three-boom! and he fired me with a one-two-three-boom! — a man after my own heart.” CANNED, Catherine went back to work canning tomatoes in commercial shorts until Mr. Laurence Langner of the New York Theatre Guild came to Hollywood and auditioned for subordinate parts in the Guild’s “Oklahoma” and “Foolish Notion.” One of the few chosen was Catharine. She was offered a two-year contract with the Guild, but Mr. Shurr demurred. “What can I do to keep you here?” he asked. To which Catherine replied, “Get me the lead in an ‘A’ production — and I’ll stay.” “If that’s what it takes,” said Mr. Shurr, as concisely, “okay.” Frank Borzage was testing name actresses for the part of Myra Hassman in “I’ll Always Love You.” But a name actress, when it came to finding one at liberty, was a needle in the haystack and Mr. Borzage was “reduced to testing newcomers.” Newcomer McLeod was given a test and without much notice. Mr. Borzage tested for three and a half hours. The next day the test was run. Mr. Borzage told Catherine, “Your acting is pretty good; your looks pretty bad.” “When I explained,” Catherine says, “that I was working under the handicap of two layers of make-up — one for canning tomatoes, the other for the test — they tested me again. A make-up test, this time, strictly hair, clothes, lighting . . .” The second test won her the role. The day the picture started, Catherine discovered that her name had been changed to Cathy Marlowe. “Gee, boss,” she said, “let me keep my own name. My Dad and Mother are dead, you know, and I — well, I’d like to keep McLeod for Dad and Catherine for Mother, whose name it was.” Mr. Borzage crossed out Cathy Marlowe. “Done, Miss Catherine McLeod,” said he. A few days after the picture started, co-star Philip Dorn asked Catherine how it felt to be walking, so soon, among the stars. Catherine, looking bleak, shook her head. “You see, I haven’t been given a contract, which makes me feel temporary and insecure. I can bear bodily pain better than a feeling of insecurity.” A few moments later the grapevine to the Front Office having functioned swiftly, Catherine was signed to a contract. However, the McLeod insecurity should be dissipated by now, because her studio has now cast her in what is going to be one of their big pictures of the year, “The Fabulous Texan.” “ ‘How are you going to feel,’ my sister asked me, ‘When you are a great, big movie star?’ “ ‘I won’t feel like a big star,’ I said, ‘Until I mention that I want a Coke and, quick like that, someone on the set brings it to me. Just between you and me, I tried it on the last day of ‘I’ll Always Love You’ and no one brought it!’ ” The End 98 R. W. SUMMERS, LTD., 516 FIFTH ftVE.. N. Y. 18. N. Y.