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Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...
...Harry Ruby's real passion in life is neither song nor script writing-it is baseball. Ever since a day, 22 years ago, when Ruby stopped in New Rochelle to watch a Westchester League sandlot game, baseball has obsessed him to the point of mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...
...always used to say during his musical comedy days that he wanted a crack at the legitimate drama. In his second attempt with "You Can't Take It With You," he carried the complete weight of a show which besides Stone has nothing to offer but a badly frayed script and a conglomeration of poorish actors...
Vexed, Producer Saul Heller refused Dowling his full $1,000-a-week salary. Dowling snorted that script-reading was better than prompting. So Heller appealed to Actors' Equity...
...Correspondent Albert Leitch handed him a fresh script, straightened him out. Cotton Ed chugged off again. Huffing & puffing through his old-style planter's mustache, old DuRant concluded his oration, turned to Leitch and bawled: "How'd I do?" A flushed engineer threw a switch, took Cotton...