Anthony From Afar

February, 1962

I remember my first meeting with this Anthony. It was in the busiest social center in Hollywood, the assembly room that is to the actor what his club is to a London barrister; the unemployment insurance office on Santa Monica Boulevard.My friends, who know what I think about the handing out of Trinkgeld and other lagniappes to the laughing boys of the acting fraternity, will ask what I was doing in a place like that. I was not after handouts. The way it happened, a friend of mine, a bristle-edge...