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Requirements of artistic movie acting are sometimes most exacting. Wally Beery spent an entire morning just off the set of his new picture, “Steel Heels,” perfecting his aim with watermelon seeds. In a comedy boarding house scene with Marjorie Main, he
eats an entire melon, snapping the seeds from his mouth between gulps to hit various objects in the room. This is expected to get a big laugh, even from Emily Post, America’s etiquette expert.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24826, 28 January 1942, Page 3
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