Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-14

for Yale, like his father. -
But he was thrown out 0f
Andover for a prophetic reason
uncomfortable high spirits"
The = l8-year-old Bogart, u1.
willing to face his family. Joined
the Navy and served through
World War l as helmsman ON
the captured German liner Lee
viathan, carrying American
troops.
Brady Started Him Out
1t was one OF his fathers pa
tients. Producer William A.
Brady, who gave him his first
job in show business. 1t was a
S50-a week job as manager of u
travelling stock company. His
most painful job was paying the
actors because they made more
than he did-and thus stage
manager decided to become an
actor.
He started out on the stage as
a paten-leather juvenile COM
plete with blue blazer and white
flannel pants. He still carried
in his wallet his first notice
written by the late Alexander
Woolcott.
1t read: THE performance Of
Humphrey Bogart could be de-
scribed mercifully as made
quate."
Perhaps Mr.. Bogart's greatest
stage success was as killer Duke
Mantee in The Petrified For
est" 1t was a role that brought
him out to Hollywood and made
an overnight movie sensation
of him.
1t was hard to imagine he
was the originator of the famous
line, Tennis. anyone?"
Mr.. Bogart loved to recall his
entry into Hollywood. Il came
out here with one suit and every
body said looked like bum.
Twenty years later Marion
Brando came out with only a
sweatshirt and the town drooled
over him. That shows how much
Hollywood has progressed"
Liked to Needle People
Mr.. Bogart's greatest forte was
needing Time and time
again at Hollywood parties. he
would delight in getting near two
friendly people-the friendlier
the better-and then start his
needing.
AS the whisky flowed. the two
former friends got to the point
of taking punches at each other
and later wondering why Mr..
Bogart. meanwhile. would be
over in another corner starting
another impromptu feud.
Mr.. Bogart, Of course, usually
never got involved himself. AS
he once said I'm an arguer and
. lover, but a lousy fighter"
But a few of his famous fights
had barred him from nightclubs,
both here and in New York. The
most celebrated one involved his
taking a stuffed panda into one
club.
Even in his illness Mr.. Bogart
; kept up with his needing. When
!; he wasn't watching television, he
was on the telephone and in his
own words Housing up people
around town."
And that's doing it the hard
way" he would laugh, because
try to get people mad at each
other when there's no whiSlv
i. handy"
One of the favorite needing
targets of Mr.. Bogart was the
press. He always had been his
, own best press agent in Holly
: wood and when rumors Of his i'll.
ness started appearing in coll
umns he dictated an open letter
to the press.
Discounted Rum0rS
1t read. in part:
:. II have heard that both nv
lungs were removed and replaced
by an old gas pump salvaged
! from a defunct Standard Oil
station. I have practically been
!; buried in every cemetery, includ-
ing several where I am certain
they accept only dogs.
). But I swear, under oath, that
I have never been, am not now,
or ever intend to be on the eighth
floor of Los Angeles Memorial
, Hospital. When that happens,
III throw in the towel"
/ Mr.. Bogart had said that
Actor William Powell, who had
recovered from a cancer opera
ton in 1888. told him that he
got the same rumors, too.
That's Hollywood for you,"
+. Mr.. Bogart commented causti-
cally. Even the rumors are re-
, issues"
:. Mr.. Bogart's last picture was
THE Harder They Fall" in
which he played an embittered
publicity man and promoter.
Other pictures included The
Two Mrs. CAROLS. The Treas
ure of the Sierra Madre," Key
Largo" Knock on Any Door,"
Tokyo Joe" "Deadline U. S. A."
Battle Circus, Beat the Devil"
"Sabrina." The Barefoot Con.
Itessa," We're No Angels" and
The Left Hand of God"
Married Four Times
Miss Bacall was Mr.. Bosart's
fourth wife. The others were
Actresses Helen Menken, Mary
Phillips and Mayo Methot.
Mr.. Bogart married Miss Ba-
call in l945 on the farm OF
novelist Louis Bromfield near
Mansfield, Ohio. She was only
20 at the time and Mr.. Bogart
was AS.
Hollywood gave the marriage
six moths at best. but it's doubt
full if there were two happier
married people in town than the
Bogarts During the early part
OF his illness. Betty or Rabv-aS