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On the night of November
16, 1936, Victor Mature made his debut as an actor in
"Paths Of Glory." After the opening-night performance
he sent a message to his father as follows: "I now
have more than an ambition. I have a career." After a
few weeks, Charlie Root returned to Louisville-alone; in three
months the name of Victor Mature was a byword at the Playhouse.
In six months the name had a ring to it all over Pasadena. It
was the name of a tall, dark dynamo who let it be known |
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| Mature, was to take
unto himself a wife, created a minor sensation in the
Gotham press. City editor assigned their best men to the
job of finding out when and where the marriage was
taking place. Curiously enough only one person in
New York, outside of the principals, knew the time and
place. He could have sold the information for $500 to
any city editor in town. But he didn't. His name
doesn't matter. What does matter is that he was a lowly
taxicab driver who had struck a friendship with
Mature. The Great One had flagged him down one
day, asked to be taken to the Stork Club and then
inquired how were tricks. The cabbie told him that his
wife was having a baby just any day now and ...
"Here," Mature said, removing a pair of cuff
links from his sleeves, "with my compliments. Only
when you go to hock them at a pawnshop, don't let them
rook you. A very beautiful girl gave them to
me. They must have cost something like
$400." |
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