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Reacting instantaneously is another. You can't floor the boy! His brain functions triggerfashion and it would take a better man than Gungha Din to stump him. I remember an amazing incident. He has a farm in the hills of Connecticut, you know, and he plans to retire to it eventually. Whenever he can maneuver a vacation, he heads back there, and he already has his house fixed just about as he want it. The only trouble is that folks have discovered that it's his, and there isn't as much privacy as he anticipated. A fellow has to get off this eternal dress-parade sometime! Well, one day Bob had been out and, when he returned, he found that a young man and woman had walked up, opened the front door, and were completely at home inside, giving his living-room a minute once-over. Can you imagine such nerve? I'll admit that I'd have been so mad at such effrontery that I'd probably have been completely speechless. Bob was astounded, but he never let on. "Do you like it?" he queried politely. "Oh, yes," they answered. He says he could tell they were newlyweds and, somehow, didn't realize that there was anything odd about just walking in and making themselves at home. "I'm so glad!" he exclaimed. "Let me show you all around and then we'll have tea!" Bob loves to play jokes on people, but he's a good sport when he's the goat, too! I'm Going To tell another incident about him. This last Christmas, he gave a lot of heavy thought to his selection of a present for Brooks Morris — Chester Morris' six-year-old son. Bob finally settled on a fancy electric train. Three weeks before Christmas he had it sent to the Morris home, for Chester to hide away. A couple of days after he had been advised that it had arrived safely, he 'phoned Chester one evening and said he wanted to come over. So what did he want to do? He had Chester pull aside all the furniture in one room and proceeded to plunge into the mysteries of setting up that train and seeing it run in all its complicated glory! But there's another side to Bob, also. I am sure you have sensed this from his screen portrayals. After all, a man who was all gaiety would grow tiresome. Bob has his serious moments. As a business man, for instance, he is very shrewd. He didn't fall into his Hollywood success. There were years on the stage when he was struggling along on a small and shaky salary. So he has behaved with praiseworthy foresight since establishing himself in pictures. He lives comfortably, but he hasn't bought a mansion. He rents a house from John Mack Brown. He isn't putting on any front to impress. His home is for his family and his friends. His earnings are carefully invested. Bob isn't gullible. And, believe me, that's a very helpful characteristic out here. They don't try to sell you the subway, or the Empire State Building, but practically everything else can be had "at a great bargain, just for you!" There's An Amazing contradictory streak in him. He doesn't take things seriously, and yet, undoubtedly, he does. It's difficult to explain. All the hullabaloo made about stars doesn't fool him — he accepts it as fun and phoney-business. But he is profoundly concerned, nevertheless, with things being as they should be. He's still idealistic. He is one of the leaders in the Screen Actors' Guild and is constantly battling for justice, for better conditions for the actors. Not just for himself, but for our profession as a whole. I hate to go through a picture with those extraordinarily arty souls who have illusions of grandeur. They carry on as though they had the weight of the world on their shoulders. They can't be natural for fear it will shock the prop-boys — or spill the beans about themselves! Bob, now, goes at it with a keen sense of humor. He enjoys the actual acting. I should say that he ranks extremely high as an actor, too. He has an obvious charm of personality, and more. Bob has studied, debated, which are the best ways to give certain effects. In other words, he is skilled at his trade. And that means something. His personality, which is unique, put him across in Hollywood. But his earnestness, his mastery of the technique of acting, will keep him on top here as long as he wants to stay. I don't think there's a better light romantic actor in any studio. There I Come back to what may hit you as still another paradox. You might suppose that he achieves perfection in his particular line by simply breezing onto the set and rattling off his dialogue. He does "toss off" his speeches. That is, he delivers his dialogue in a human, unaffected manner. He isn't one of those hammy actors who drums in his meanings to the audience. Yet, strangely, I have never found Bob "ad libbing." He is spontaneous, but he is diligently prepared to be. He knows his role to the last nuance, learns his part and doesn't trust to improving it on the spur of the moment. Nor is there any foolishness about getting into a mood. He has figured it out the night before. So he can be gaily chattering with someone and then suddenly walk before the cameras and do a big scene. I'm a past master at "going up" on lines, myself. Bob never does! We're going to work together again soon, in "Mutiny on the Bounty," and there's a lot of swell swashbuckling written in the script. It's an assignment that suits me to a T. Montgomery is the kind of guy I favor having around — auick, bright, and continuously amusing. But perhaps you've already got my idea. Bob is a bit of "all right!" HOLLYWOOD