Anthony From Afar

February, 1962

Anthony From AfarI 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 min...