HOLLYWOOD STARS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 428, 8 May 1937, Page 3

HOLLYWOOD STARS

If 'they, suddenly found themselves out of pictures, Hollywood’s stars, particularly the male stars wouldn’t starve. Almost all of them have experience in other callings on which to fall back. * * * Clark Gable, has been an oil-drill-er, salesman of classified advertising, and clerk in a rubber factory; a record rivalled only by Bruce Cabot,, who luas been stock salesman, lumberjack, sailor, and tutor. Robert Montgomery sailed before the matt on a Standard Oil tanker. Wallace Beery has been a section hand, circus worker, and an electrician. * * * Nelson Eddy could go tuck to writing advertising .copy or newspaper reporting, at both o£ which callings he made good .11 Philadelphia before his voice was discovered. Incidentally, he is also an expert trap drum. iner. Leo Carrillo made a success of civil engin lo.“:ig before taking up acting. * * * Lionel and John Barrymore could both go back to art. John was once a cartoonist on the New York Journal, Lionel a magazine illustrator. Jean Hersholt is another artist, having won success las a portrait painter before going into acting.