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Giggles & Leers. So, last week, began Horton's 1,180th performance of Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
...straw-hat circuit, Henry is worth every C-note of it. Horton gives a carefully turned performance as one of the most redoubtable rakes that ever jumped a garden wall. "I do not fall into the bass drum," he admits, "nor do I go up with the curtain. But everything else, I do." He simpers like a ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades...
...began starring in silent films, most of them box-office duds. After sound came, Horton began to win a movie public as a fuddy-duddy Mr. Fixit. In the high-grossing Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire pictures, he became one of the screen's best-known comedians. Of late years he has operated as a "scavenger," making pictures "whenever they have a bad part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio...
...Bachelor Horton tots up every restaurant check himself, fills his pockets with tiny slips of paper listing his little daily expenses to be passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income. He has built, furnished and rented "seven lovely houses" on his 25-acre San Fernando Valley farm, which a Hollywood wag christened "Belleigh Acres." Edward says: "My, but it's been an easy life...
...down the Eastern Seaboard, such sure-fire wandering stars as Horton promise to dominate this summer's season even more than seasons past. Summer stock as an acting and playwrighting laboratory has almost disappeared; at an average $2 a seat, there is too much money to be made with proven plays and proven stars. Money is also made from stage-struck youngsters who pay up to $500 a season for the privilege of collecting tickets, lugging scenery about and memorizing one-line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors...