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MUTT AND JEFF
WHAT'RE YOU DOING
HERE? I THOUGHT YOU. WAS WORUNG AS A
A NIGHTWATCHÉMAME
AW I
FIRED THIS MORNING!
THOSE CONTRACTING PEOPLE GIVE ME A PAIN! THEY EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM AN ORDINARY NIGHT WATCHMAN. ~~THEY MUST: THINK I HAVE EYES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD, TOO?
WHYYA
JUST BECAUSE ONE LITTLE THING WAS MISSING... { THEY FIRED ME!
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COLD CALCULATION
If you get anywhere as an actor in subject. When I persisted, he sober- Hollywood you have to have an over- ed and looked at me keenly. abundance of ability; a reputation, or "Bothers you, doesn't it " contacts. With Hadley Perkins it “I'd like to know the answer to the was contacts. Curious, too, because riddle" I admitted.
the man who gave him the most help He lighted a cigarette "I like you, and really put him on top was Chet Ray.Hate to have you go on think- Ames.
îng me a, dub. Keep what I have to say under your hat?"
Now, most everyone knows Chet Ames. „Chet has been in pictures a long time. Once or twice he's almost reached the top. But never, quite.
Why, sure, You know that.”” "0. K. How long do you think I've been in pictures?"
You'd think that Chet would resent. I figured. "About eleven years." a rising young actor like Hadley Per- "Sixteen. I started when I was kins. Not so. When Hadley had seventeen. I'm thirty-three now. fought his way from the ranks of Ever since I've been twenty-two I've extras to doing bit parts, Chet gave been a featured player at a nice him, a helping hand. And that was salary.”
a
at a time when Kaufman Studios, be- "You could have hit the top at cause of an avalanche of fan mail nicer salarý, if you hadn't let birds and newspaper talk, considered giv- like Hadley Perkins steal the show." ing Chet a lead role in his next
vehicle.
To make a long story short, it was
Chet blew smoke through his nose.
thought. This was two years after Chet had given: Hadley his boost his chance. Through Chet's efforts, I shook my head. I don't know, Hadley began rapidly, to attract at- Made his pile and quit, I guess.” tention. He went ahead in leaps and "No." Chet shook his head. “Just bounds, and when the final casting quit. Listen Ray, the average po- for the new picture came along, Had-, pularity span of great stars is Bix ley was assigned the star part that years. Some of 'em go longer, others would have gone to Chet.
‚ less. If a man's a' type he lasts less Hadley felt pretty bad about" it. because folks get sick of types. Had- He owed his success to. Chet and he ley was a type. So am I; I didn't knew it. He hated the thought of want to risk being kicked out. I like
Hadley Perkins who robbed Chet Where's Perkins 'now
By Stanley Cordell
elbowing his benefactor to one side acting too much. Llike the salary on his climb to fame. But what could I get. The Good Old Public is the he do? There is little room for a hardest taskmaster in the world.
If man with scruples and honour on the you depend upon them you can also: ladder to fame.
❤tory depend upon them" betraying you in So Hadley merely felt bad and let the end.
be
bo
it go at that. For awhile he avoided I began to see a light.. "So you Chat, felt a twinge of conscience when figured if you never allowed yourself ever they met. But this feeling wore to become too important, the hero of off. Chet didn't act bitter or resent the masses, not so much would ful or sore, and besides, things were expected of you. You wouldn't happening too fast for Hadley to ° big enough to have folks go to the waste much time grieving.
trouble of condemning, you.”. Within a year from the time. ChetThat's about it." first introduced him to the right peo "And whenever you looked plo, Hadley, was on top. Unequalled though you were going to be pushed and unchallenged in the role of most out in front you sponsored someone popular movie actor in Hollywood, like Perkins, groomed him to take your That was the year I first began to place. A sort of passing the buck know Chet intimately I had to do idea, at the same time making some publicity for him, and we be hero of yourself." camo pretty good friends. He was likeablo,aurprisingly reserved for He looked at me quickly. "Not that. I thought it all out. If a man hasn't a featured player whose name was sense enough to know he's a fool for known to millions of Americans. I becoming a star, that's his hard luck. was only after we had established: Most men are too vain to ignore the ourselves on an intimate basis that bid for fame, I had to fight to over- he let down at all. By letting.
down
come the desire. Now I'm glad. Most I mean he betrayed the real man of the stars have faded. They wonder behind the Hollywood front..
That's pictures for you. why. It was acquaintanceship with this been in movica for sixteen years and real man that aroused my curiosity, I'm still going strong. That's being sot me to thinking and later to in- vestigating. Chet Ames was shrewd
He had a mind that was cold and calculating and sharp. He had a head for figures and an insight into human nature that was astonishing,
This discovery didn't cause me to like him any less, but it made mo wonder why he had lot Hadley olbow: him out of the limelight. It made me thinit back, and thinking back I re called other actors who had forcod. Chot into the background and advanc 'ed themsolýcs out "front.
Something was wrong..
This busi ness of allowing himself to be, rele gated to the ranks by men less shrawd than himself when't consistent":<with! the Chet' Amos that I had come to know.
Bo I questioned him about it. At first he only laughed and changed the
smart,"
I had to agree,
I've
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