BOGART REFORMS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16

BOGART REFORMS.

Nothing less than the complete re- "The blue, the fresh, and ever free" formation of a deep-dyed villain took has great appeal to some of us, and place in Hollywood recently. It was this applied to Mr. Cecil Mason, the none other than Humphrey Bogart general manager for Columbia Pictures who takes the leading role in Warner Pty., Ltd., Australia and New Zealand. Bros.' exciting drama, "Crime School." Mr. Mason is a frequent visitor from For the man who played Duke Mantee Sydney to New Zealand, and he writes in "The Petrified Forest;" Baby Face that soon he hopes to visit here in his Martin in "Dead End," and Turkey in • own launch. To be oompleted by spring. "Kid Galahad" is now a reformed it is a 46ft motor sailer, with sufficharacter if ever you saw one. He cient range to carry him across to New laughed at the change himself. Zealand. He also states that he was "Imagine a noble Bogart," he was extremely fortunate in that, during the heard muttering occasionally. Known recent hurricane in Sydney, he did not to millions of moviegoers as a very have the cruiser he now possesses comtough "hombre," because of the roles pietely wrecked. "The hurricane," he he customarily plays, Bogart is a very saySi « was bad enough, but unfortunatelikeable fellow who in real life is far i y we experienced one of the.highest different from his movie characterisa- tides in history, if not the highest. Very tions. "I like it very well, indeed," he f ew moorings had sufficient chain on says. "It's a new kind of thing for me them, and mine, amongst others, just to play all right. It demands that I lifted her concrete block. By sheer think differently; it makes me alter g 00( j fortune, they were able to get me my facial expressions, even the tones through the rough seas on to my boat, of my voice. So it's a pleasant and use- an( j f Or two hours I just kept her nose ful change for me." Bogart is grate- m t o jt under power. She was poundful, however, that in making him noble ing ano ther boat when I got on board, the script of "Crime School" doesnt but not a grea t deal of damage was also handcuff him. Instead, it lets him done, i wa s extremely fortunate, beswing a fist in one good rousing fight. cause many launches were, complete "People like a fighter," he says. wrecks."