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school heard this, he forgave his two errant cadets and asked them to send a picture to the school alumni bulletin. Mature and Backus corralled all the females at the studio, plus a couple of prop champagne bottles, and posed themselves with the girls planting kisses left and right while they swig¬ ged champagne. The picture was sent off to the headmaster with the cap¬ tion: “By the way, Colonel, what are the honor students doing now?” More recently, they appeared to¬ gether in Androcles and the Lion as 'I'm on the set so much, I had to wire the Electoral College last week to find out who won the Presidential election.' Roman soldiers. Dressed to the knees in togas, armor and steel helmets, one day during lunch the two sneaked off the set and went to a distant bar which does not usually cater to the Hollywood crowd. The bartender was more than a little startled at the sud¬ den appearance of two Roman sol¬ diers and hesitated a bit before serving them. Immediately, Backus pounded loudly on the bar and shouted so every one could hear: “What’s the matter? Aren’t service¬ men welcome here?” When his high school service ca¬ reer ended, Backus went to New York and settled down long enough to graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1933. Returning to Cleveland to appear in stock, he suffered an appendicitis attack and was forced into inactivity. Sorely in need of cash, he accepted radio bits, his first being with hum V Abner. He continued his kilocycle career in Detroit and, in 1936, moved to New York. There, for the next eight years, he was employed vocally at one time or another on jupt about every network program emanating from Manhattan. For some time, he was appearing on 14 shows weekly. 'I've got so much folding money left over that I'm giving it away. The creases are spoiling George Washington's picture.' In 1944, he landed his *plaudit-pro- voking character of “Hubert Updyke” on the Alan Young show, which brought him to Hollywood. Unknown to the public as a per¬ former, Jim is equally unknown as a writer, even though he wrote most of the Updyke chatter. His favorite line occurred the time Hubert was spar¬ ring with a society snob very con¬ scious of her background. With each trying desperately to top the other, Hubert finally threw a curve with: “My folks came over on the May¬ flower.” “So did mine,” replied his adversary. “On the shakedown cruise?” he sneered. 19