EXTRA PLUS ICE SKATES.
Horace Brown's gluttony for punishment paid dividends. The young actor was hired as an extra for the skating sequence in "There Goes My Heart," the Hal Roach _omedy-roman*ce starring Fredric March and Virginia Bruce. "Expert Skaters Only" read the call sent out by Central Casting Bureau, but Brown needed the ipb badly, so he joined the throng reporting at the Polar Palace in Los Angeles, where the scene was filmed. No sooner was the young man on the ice than it was apparent to everyone that he'd never had skates on before. His glides were limited to a few feet. The rest of the time his feet were in the air and he was doing spirals and fallen-leafs, crashing to the ice with frequency and intensity. Brown's efforts attracted the attention -of Director Norman Z. McLeod, who included him in a "musical chairs" episode involving March, Miss Bruce, and Walter Ridge. His inability to keep on his feet continued and he supplied added hilarity to one of the most amusing scenes in the picture.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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