The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
| h. Mezc York
ar ItfTIA nLANsHARD

By JULIA BnANSHAtkD | New York -- Young Americans who arc tramping around for jobs would hardly believe Tom Hamii- ton's experience.
 Tommy was born wanting to be an actor and seemingly also with all the requisites. He's fine look ling, has definite charm, wears ms clothes like a million and Is to the manner born, being youngest son of an old aristocratic family. But he has never succeeded in getting anywhere near Broadway having had to be satisfied with parts in little thenter or stock companies.
 Eariy in the month he was sit- ting in a speakeasy with some | friends. Two men came in and sat at the next table just as Tommy, | in fine form, rose gallantly 60 pro- poste e toast to Q visiting girl. The minute he finished, one of the men tapped him on shoulder.
 "Could you, by any chance, be an actOr?" he asked. Tom bowed low and assured him that he himself had always thought so, but to date he
 had been alone in his opin-
 ion. The man - producer - laughed and hired him on the spot. Hamilton will play the
 Prince of Wales when the
 new play, "As Thousands
 Cheer" reaches Broadway
 Study in Leisure.
 Americans as & whole undoupt- ediy will have to learn how 70 use their new leisure to the best ad- vantage. But fortunately there are some who seem born with . par ticuIar rift for enjoying things that might not amuse the average per- son.
 (and Lindy and Anne's aunt), Mrs Arnes Morrow Scandrett, is one or these fortunates. On ono of the hottest of recent days, for instance she visited 0 friend of hers who raises fancy sheep, at a New ter. sey auction of prize ewes and rams which ]. c. Penney had I'm.
 ported from England. All day long l they sat on bench, choking on the dust, looking the sheep over. | "Bored ?" Mrs scandrett show ed definite surprise when her fam. iiy laughed at her manner of
 snendinR the day. How on earth
 could i be bored when I never
 before knew c single thing about sheer 2" she replied. T tell you | | learned als about their sway backs long faces and lot more than you q ever believe, in just that one day.
 Who knows, maybe some day III
 hava to earn my living and l might
 want to raise sheep"
 Once an Actor Always
 | That old theatrical tradition that
 biunders or miscues onstage must
 be hidden from the audience ns rapidly as possible. seems 70 carry
 over into life, when really good
 actors and actresses get together. Anne Tonetti, actress. daughter or
 the famous Italian sculptor, the late
 Marcel Tonetti, tells the foiiowins
 nnecdote of Snedin's Landing. where Katharine Cornell leased Anne's house for Ave years. I Before playing in "The Green
 Hat" Miss Cornell had sunk all
 her available cash in two plays which fiopped, and she and her husband, Guthrie McClintic, dis.
 pensed with servants and did all their own work.
 one Saturday night they had fifteen guests. including many stage
 celebrities, and Miss Cornell had
 been in the kitchen cooking most of the day. Finally. her cheeks Ifiushod, Miss Cornell appeared 'n the door bearing nioft n huge. roast
 with appetlzing,y browned potatoes
 all around 1t, and announced:
 "Dinner Is served" ~. At just that moment. stoop.
 ing to place the roast. on the
 table, Miss Cornell ripped on | the rug, tho platter slipped | out of her hands. and the | roast and every single potato | rolled onto the floor.
 | Winthrop Ames, with exceeding grace, swooped down. gathered up the roast, deposited 1t on the plat ter once more. George Arliss res cued a few potatoes from under the serving table. other guests re. trieved the rest, someone arranged them neatly around the roast once more, someone else lifted the plat. ter proudly to the table. and all sat down to cat as if nothing had happened. No one commented up- on the incident the entire evening. '. - -