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Believe it or not, the script called for candy-eating during those scenes — garlic-proof! "The outdoor shots," he went on, "were filmed mostly at Gallup, New Mexico. No love scenes there and we could — and did — eat anything we chose. Bill Holden and I did some tricky cooking with a portable barbecue and when Betty heard about the dreamy food, she began a campaign that ended with my buying one for the Carey Actor's Home." More anon about cooking and Carey vs. peanut butter. . . . Mac raved about a Mexican actor — well-known south of the border — named Alfonso Bedoya, who plays Charley Calico, a bandit, in "Laredo." "The guy's terrific," said Mac, the one actor who praises other actors. "This, incidentally, was my first assignment as a film-heavy and I was crazy about it. "The moustache I wear as Lorn is a beauty — bushier than the one I'm behind now. The reason I'm still wearing one is that it pleases my wife. As Caesar Borgia in 'Bride Of Vengeance,' my own moustache is fancy, turns down, but the attendant beard is a fake — that I would not grow. Regarding hirsute adornments, June Havoc once told me that she made her husband (Bill Spier) wear a beard because, to her way of thinking, it does things for a man." Mac feels that acting as a rotter, stinker, cad or dastard is considerably more fun than playing a well-scrubbed hero, also that it may do more for him, professionally speaking. He noted that a similar behavior pattern had done wonders for Victor Mature and Richard Widmark, both now concentrating on screenpunks. "Vic Mature once defined a cad," said Mac, "as a guy who has sex appeal and doesn't give a hoot about anything — a setup that women seem to admire. I personally am opposed to indiscriminate killing and the cads I am in 'Laredo' and the Borgia number aren't much given to casual butchering. "As a matter of fact, in the Borgia opus, my sister — played by Paulette Goddard — does most of my poisoning for me, I only snuff out one lone character. In 'Laredo,' I kill several, but I'm very amiable in the process. And, finally, Mona drops me with a bullet just as I start to polish off the guy who's come betwixt us. She's protecting him, of course, because I'm such a terrific guy with a six-shooter and he hasn't a chance. She's very fair that way, a sentiment that appeals to me as long as it's only a movie character who's doing the dying." Like everyone else, Mac hates to be kept waiting. It's one fault possessed ScREENLAND by a majority of people. "My wife says that I move slowly," he admits, "but, even so, I'm pretty prompt. My work in radio got me accustomed to gauging time down to seconds. Thanks to being able to figure that way and since I'm only a half hour away from the studio, have a tan and don't need makeup, I don't have to leave the house before 8: 20 and, even so, I can be dressed and on the set by 9:00. "That the movie business may keep us waiting, is a matter of no consequence. Waiting was something we got used to in the Marines, anyway (Mac was a lieutenant) . It was the old war story — wait for food, wait for orders, wait. . . ." Our man confesses that he's bad about letter-writing, despite his personal knowledge of what a letter can accomplish. "A note," he says, "did the trick when it came to persuading Betty that she'd be the happiest woman in the world if she became Mrs. C. In that letter I analyzed our situation, made an appeal to reason and she was swept off her feet by its overwhelming eloquence — in fact, she accepted me, just as she had decided to, months previous to my devastating missive." Mac can cite an instance from his background that will illustrate the tiny tricks fate springs on people. "I'd done a lot of acting in college," he says, "and I was also working for my master's degree, but an offer from a professional Shakespearian stock company was too good to pass up. I became an actor. "I was engaged as a juvenile, one of the reasons I was willing to quit college. But it seems that there were two directors and each had hired a juvenile and who'd want two of those things? And the other one had been acquired before I was and, besides, he was younger and prettier. "To me," he went on, "it seemed like a lousy break. I'd burned my academic bridges behind me in order to be a juvenile and I wasn't. So — I became a character man and, if I do say so, a darned good one. "Instead of appearing as a pretty dude, I waddled about as Friar Lawrence and grabbed off a handful of applause. I played Brutus to Julius Caesar and found it a fat part. I worked every day and drew a cash salary that the management admitted I'd earned honestly. Also, I learned plenty about acting even as I discovered that what had looked like a. kick in the pants was actually a boost up the ladder!" On his list of small irritations go the people who forget to say thanks, the late arrivals and the coughing audience at the theatre and, worst of all, the lugs who don't try to remember your name. Mac spoke of one annoyance that movie people might rank as either a major or a minor one — namely, set visitors. "The public knows how movies are