JOHN BARRYMORE TURNS DOWN NASSAU'S TIGER AS CO-STAR

The Princeton Tiger, most famous of famous, narrowly missed being a box office attraction when John "Profile" Barrymore refused to co-star with the beast.

Paramount producer Sol Siegel was inspired to offer the tiger role in "World Premiere" to the Princeton mascot, but just as he was making the offer, Barrymore walked in, was informed of the offer, and flatly refused to work with the animal.

Pressed for an explanation, Barrymore revealed that he was a Harvard man. A search of the Harvard records failed to show that the actor had ever matriculated here, but Barrymore explained that he had once stoked furnaces in between shows, disguised as a poet.

In proof, he claimed that there was still a legend of a poet janitor at Lowell House.