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Twelve hours, if you have to, the next night." If he's not actually hungry, he won't eat, regardless of the hour. Regular mealtimes have no place on Cary's calendar. "I suppose I got that way from the old times when I didn't know where my next meal was coming from," is the way he explains it, screwing up that left eyebrow of his. Naturally, it drives Mary a little wild. She and Henry, both ebony-hued and hefty, run the Grant-Scott household and threaten to leave three times a week and twice on Sundays. As a matter of fact, you couldn't bribe them away. A scenario writer tried it once because what Mary can do with beaten biscuits and chicken is something to dream about. But Mary only shrugged. "Ah'd be thinkin' all the time of what ah was missin'." "Of course," Mary admits, "he's the most forgettin'est man what is!" Yesterday, for instance, he invited twelve people to dinner. And did he remember to tell Mary about it? He did not. Around eight, the guests, in formal attire, began to arrive. Cary was still at the studio. When he arrived home he found them milling about, eating all the nuts and candy in the house — and Mary on the point of apoplexy. "What the heck," said Cary. "You have to eat 365 days in the year. Where you ' eat isn't so important as long as you do." And he bustled the crowd over to a restaurant. For once he had his checkbook along. uARY never has cash with him. It's always in his other trousers. You know that No. 1 Embarrassing Moment when Young-Man-Out-On-a-Date dives into his pants' pockets and pulls out — nothing. Mr. Grant has learned to meet that situation with an amazing amount of aplomb. It happens to him so often. As a rule, he simply reaches for a cigarette and signals the head waiter. But sometimes the signals won't work. At that little Russian cafe, for example, where he went with Phyllis Brooks a short time ago, the h.w. didn't know him. He looked like Car-ie Gr-rant, yes, but impostors, they are too theek in Hollywood. The man weighed 280 and he had the fiercest black mustache in captivity. Cary didn't argue long. He telephoned Randy — but he wasn't home. He frantically dialed his stand-in, Mai Merrighue, only to find that he'd gone to the fights. "No more!" shouted the mustachioed one. "You run up the telephone bill on top the check." "For the sake of the Volga boatman, just one more call," pleaded Cary. This time he got the prop man on his picture. "Jim," said the strangely humble voice of Mr. Grant (who has to worry considerably about his income tax), "could you lend me four bucks?" Among his pals Cary's known as "the professor." Not, however, for any academic reasons. It all dates back to that time aboard the Arabic, when he was crossing the Atlantic . . . when he appeared at the costume ball as the Absent-minded Professor. Things had been a bit stifnsh on the ship and he decided to liven them up. His idea was to go in full evening dress minus his shirt. Then Cary got to thinking of a new vaudeville skit . . . When he entered the ballroom he saw the eyebrows shoot up, the startled glances. A chill premonition swept over him. He looked down. It wasn't his shirt he was minus. It was his pants! JUST the other evening, Cary showed up at the Countess di Frasso's swank party in faultless Fifth Avenue tails, top hat — and no tie. It's a gift. Irresponsible young blade. Delightful but quite mad. Yes, indeed. That's one view of Cary. But don't let it fool you. He drives the shrewdest bargain with the studios of any actor in Hollywood. As one producer put it, "Grant won't sign anything longer than a two or three-picture contract, but he gets everything into that contract but the kitchen stove. The man should be a lawyer yet!" He has earned his own living since he was thirteen years old. He's learned, through the hard way of hard knocks, that life is too serious to take seriously. It needs to be flavored with nonsense. Cary stirs up his own brand. He has no memory for important things, but how he can remember details— details like sending flowers to his secretary's mother on her birthday; collecting the funny papers each Sunday to mail to a kid brother back in England (he hasn't forgotten that once in all the time he's been in the United States) ; planning a circus party for the children of all the crew on his picture. He worked out this circus party to the last item with Mai, his stand-in. "I can't get off, but could your wife dig up a couple of friends to go along with her and look after the kids?" He hired a couple of buses, figured out a schedule for them. They had to pick up youngsters all the way from Highland Park to Southgate and he wanted those kids deposited at the circus in time to take in every side show. About three o'clock he got worried. "Look Mai, I'll do my own standing-in. You go to the circus and see that everything is all right." 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