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DON AMECHE DON AMECHE. one of the eight sons and daughters (four of each) of an Italian saloon keeper, was christened Dominic. When he was a boy his name was, of course, shortened to Dom. He is one of those friendly youngsters who call everybody by their first name after half an hour, and expects them to return the compliment, so when he left home and found himself among strangers, he was too easy-going, and decided that life was too short to correct all the people who imagined his name to be the more usual “Don. So Don he became. He is unusual, for he lays claim to no aristocratic Italian ancestry. He boasts, instead, that his father was “ the best saloon keeper in Kenosha ” (the town in Wisconsin where he was bom). To support this claim, he adds that nobody ever left the saloon drunk, and that, he considers, is a triumph of which anyone can be proud. Don went to four universities, ostensibly in search of education, although the education he fotmd Was more social than academic, and he gave up his plans to be a lawyer because he knew he couldn’t possibly pass the examinations. He began his acting career in stock companies, and was more often broke than not. Then he began to broadcast, and after six successful years was given a film contract. Three hours after he arrived in Hollywood he was at work on “ Sins of Man," and doing so well that they gave him the dual role of Jean Hersholt's sons, instead of sticking to their original intention of engaging another actor for the role of Don's brother. Before he had finished the film he was given the leading role in “ Ramona," and then he appeared in “ Ladies in Love." If his thick black hair Were a little thicker he would be six feet in height. He has no particular hobbies, but he likes poker, bridge, golf and swimming. He was married to Honore Prendergast on November 26th, 1932 , and has two little sons. Don Junior, nearly four years old, and Ronald, some two years younger. The family is completed by two red setters. 76