You never know what's going to turn up on the General Hospital soundstage. "We've had all sorts of flying animals and insects," Wally Kurth reports, noting that the most recent "guest" was a bat. "We were rehearsing a scene in the Quartermaine den - John Ingle, Billy Warlock, and Leslie Charleson and myself - when we thought this bird flew by. It swooped right down and went on its way. I thought it was a swallow. Then one of the sound people saud 'Oh, the bat is back.'" According to Kurth, everyone took it in stride, because it wasn't the first time an uninvited critter popped in during a scene. "They come in the back way," he says, "because the studio doors are open all night long while they move sets in and out. I remember one time it was a bird cooing all the time. Then [there was] that annoying cricket sound for weeks. It really got loud at times. I don't know how they edited that out."
