Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

chance in Hollywood.
Returning to his own table, the inquisitive
reporter passed the table Of Spencer Tracy and
Victor Jory Inviting himself to sit down, he
asked Tracy If he ever had been hungry.
I'm hungry now" he answered land expect
to starve before that waitress gets back with
my lunch"
II mean have you ever been hungry because
you were so broke that you couldn't buy any
food?"
Say I've been down and out and close to
starvation 50 often it became part OF my
routine" he drawled.
1T was worst in New York when lived on
$50 month while attending dramatic school,
The first two weeks Of each month weren't
so bad but the second two weeks were always
the same-rice and water or pretzels and water
three times day. And it was worse after
was kicked out Of the academy and started
looking for work.
Il missed all of my meals for four straight
days before finally getting job in mob scene
in the Theater Guild production, r. U. r.
After that show closed"
At this moment Vic Jory, whom you may
remember as the barker in Estate Fair"
interrupted Spencer's tale Of woe.
"You don't know anything about poverty,
Spence Get load of this if you want to hear
about really going hungry. I've been hungry
from New York to Hollywood missed as many
as Is meals. counting three day. at one
stretch. I've gone hungry with the hoboes In
tramp jungles, been kicked of freight trains On
an empty stomach and walked out on many q
stage so hungry that couldn't remember my
lines.
IF you want a real story on that subject.
however, go talk to Henry Carat. He's way
over there in the corner with Janet Gaynor."
hot tolls ha tn rp1afel
actor who recently was called to Hollywood to
play opposite Janet Gaynor in Adorable.
started his career Of poverty and misery back
In 1910. His father didn't have q sou and the
family was more than ordinarily hungry.
Henry, then only years OF age, was TOO
young fully to comprehend the situation. He
didn't realize that the role his father got for
him in "Ihe Two Kids" was all that saved the
family from starvation. Furthermore, the worst
was still to come.
THE outbreak of the war caused our FAM
fly to be separated" Carat explained Father
marched of to the front, mother went to work
in q hospital and was apprenticed to drug
gist The druggist. too old to 60 to war. was
brutal and beat and starved me without any
reason.
TO. make long story short, stood it for
about year and then ran away. Fur the fol-
lowing two and a half years was just q waif
on the streets Of Paris most Of the time And
for those 80 months was very hungry boy
most OF the time.
II used to pick up a little money occasionally
from soldiers who were on leave. But when
I finished one meal never knew when was
going to get another. NOE did ever know from
one night to the next where I was going to
sleep"
The reporter returned to where Baxter was
waiting Now do you believe that Aim actors
know about hunger?" Baxter asked.
"It looks as though hunger comes very near
to being the key to success in pictures" the
reporter replied.
THAT is just about true-and you have only
scratched the surface" the actor said. Just
offhand I can name any number Of others-
Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, AL Jolson,
Wally Berry. Bill Powell. Richard Dix George
Bancroft, Maurice Chevaer and Charley Far
rell among them We're all sitting on top of the
world now, but We all have known what it
means to go without food. And it's something
we don't forget" -.