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Every Sunday, on CBS, stars of Hollywood appear free on the Screen Actors Guild program, giving away the talent for which they could easily charge thousands of dollars. Above, Shirley Temple and Nelson Eddy; left, Bob Hope.
EACH Sunday afternoon the great names of Hollywood — the Gables, the Powers, the Lombards and the Crawfords — stand before the microphone of the Gulf-Screen Guild show. Standing there they individually give away what could easily bring them thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Why?
Because a dream of stone, steel and happiness must be made to come true, and a wide white door on a side street kept forever open.
Because this star-studded Sunday afternoon program is Hollywood's way of saying, "I am my brother's keeper."
For many years Hollywood was a happy-go-lucky sort of place whose fame-touched children lived only in the glowing, opulent present. It gave scant thought to the past, even less to the future. It had one creed:
every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.
Today all that is changed. Hollywood has grown up to its responsibilities. It is facing the inevitable problems of need and heartbreak within its ranks and facing them squarely.
Man's humanity to man, however, costs more than words of sympathy; it costs great sums of cash.
Cash — $10,000 in cash — is what the Screen Actors Guild is paid every Sunday for that half -hour on the air. But the Mickey Rooneys and Shirley Temples, the James Cagneys and Gracie Aliens whose freely given talent make the program the most varied on the air, prefer to think of that weekly check in terms of the lives it saves, the suicides it prevents, the babies it brings back to health, the new joy it creates for countless discour
Here is Hollywood's wide white door
aged, disillusioned fellow-humans.
That is why this is such a gripping story — because it tells so simply what fellow human beings will do for each other, and it shows so clearly how, under the everyday surface of our greed and our selfishness, there remains a longing to help others, to bring happiness to the desolate.
Here are some of the people ior whom Hollywood gives its time and talent. I want you to meet them:
You knew the real name of Mr.
■ The true story of a thrilling radio program on which stars work for nothing