People: People, May 23, 1949

Change of Pace

Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays—Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)—stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted."

Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, world-record hurdler and Olympic-champion sprinter, who has reaped reams of publicity on the track, took off his spikes and put on another pair of shoes: he set to work grinding out publicity...