McHUGH'S SCRAP BOOK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 13

McHUGH'S SCRAP BOOK

Frank McHugh/g scrap. hooka are dusty ifrom lack of use,- "buf lie can, on eccasion, be persuaded to bring thejn eut qnd tlramb througli the- .not* too aeatly kept pages. Frank (the ' 'Oiwin " , of ' ' Tfir ee Men oa a Horse") is thirty-seven years in stage and screen work; yet in spite of this. he is .perhaps the least ' 1 actorish ' ' ' actor in Hollywood to-day. His scrap hooks show this. Nowhere in them' has his oivn ixame been underlined. ' ; ' • • • This is the eighth wqnder ofthcmovie world. - "I've always intended to fix them up," he explains by way of ' apoiogy, "but somehow I xiever seem able to fet the time — or tKe energy. "Besides," ' hr\ adds sheepishly, "1 didn't have to underline the good notices beeanse there is nothing else — in these books. I threw all the poor ones away years ago. All but oue." He made a rapid se&rch through three volumes *of , clippings, pictures and theatrical apnouncements and found the ,one poor notice he had sav* ed. It was the report of a Washington, TJ.S.A., critic had written following the opening of the play "Frincess April" in the Belasco Theatre there. It aaid imkind things about the production in a Tather pleasant way and ended with

the line, "Oh! To be in England, now that, April's .here! " "He didn't like it," grins McHugh The disco.very of this review led the actor on.to other items he remember? with paTticular interest. ' 'One was a elipping -from a - Waterbury, Conn., newspaper which announeed; in heactlines, ■" Whole town of Waterbury r«' grets d-epafture- of Frank McHugh!" "I got a friend of mine to ppt it in," explains Frank. "He worked on the newspaper and we .were great friends. Near the end of .the first season I played in stock in Waterbury. Jbegan- to be worried because tbe management hadn't ofiered mo a job tbe n-ext year. * My friend fixed up the story." . ' " ' "Did it work?" MeHugfi turned the pr^re and pointea to a.second clipping wj*h was headed "Frnnk McHugh will be baclt" "It d d." he said. . ,