For more than a decade cinemaudienees have known short-tempered, pince-nazed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or iched the dogs on a luckless swain. says "Time." During the last week in January in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppress sive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over and over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Benefits Forgot" He couldn't seem to smooth Out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights" and rubbed his hands "Fine," he exulted, "fine. That was the last scene, Bob. You're all through now." White-haired Actor McWade scuffed off the set, sat down in a canvas folding chair, slumped over, died.
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