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HGLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS .|.Cabbie'sd 4Startles Riders * «Bv BOB THOMAS\\vl9HOLLYWOOD, (AP)-^-Some passengers of a local cabbie are jolted when-they see who is driving them. Theyrecognizemovies.Thisfantastic life of. the Belgian-born' man who owns a chestful of Ined-als from both world wars~-he was jfeatures cost $1i0;000 and brought a U;S. Army colonel in the lastiner could attract millions of listeners five times a week and worked up a package deal to release through RKO. The first of his sixtr13Ic1\one.in more than a.million.— _ . ] lt;4My career was interrupted onA few years ago 1he was e*™111* j Dec 7, 1941,” he related. MI was$1,000 a week as head of RKO inEngland. Today he averages $62a week from taxi fares;**The thing I ^aat least is-sympathy,M he remarked at his hilltop home. “I've had a wonderful life, and I'm still enjoying it.“I can’t find a job in the kind of work I want because of something common to those my age. Unfortunately I was born in 1900. If it were 1896 or 1905, peoplea naturalized citizen and gratefulto this' country. Although I wasoverage, I still wanted to show mys*ctIIROSE TO COLONELCYEntering as a lieutenant in thephotographic division, he rose tobe a colonel in Intelligence, performing in many highly secret and important missions. After the war,RKOaxi\—» w w — — w — — — — » *T % ■ I ~ ” - — — —— ——— —-------— —---— —--Awould have trouble figuring how man there. He was dropped when “ .........* ■ - « - Ho\m^^ighe~shought the comaway.BEGAN AS LABORER__ The„ son .jof_ an Englteh„mather and a Belgian father. Votion enlisted in the British army at 14 during the first war. invalided out, he then joined the Belgian army. He came to Hollywood in 1922, starting in the movies as a laborer at Paramount. He climbM Jhroughthe ranks to become head of the talent department, a post he also held at RKO. After 10 years as a top man in a talent agency, he turned producer. He was intrigued that a bucolic radio team named Lum and Ab-Pan?Votion, a handsome, debonair man, returned to the United States.Despairing^of “his ~chances^in—the-film industry, he took other Jobs.“One day I asked a cab driver how much he made,” Votion said.VWhen he told me $75 a week, I decided to try it. Surprisinglyenough, they gave me a job.”♦He has oeen at it almost sixmonths, leaving his house at 2:30 in the afternoon and returnihg at 1:30 a.m. 41 Yes, I often pick up people who know me,” he laughed. 4‘Their reaction is not merely surprise; ^ it’s shock.”x11ti
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Mon, Jun 04, 1956
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