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A year ago he was unheard of
Made a name In "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" and 'The Wet Parade"
Has a five-year contract with M-G-M— with options regularly taken up
Is six feet tall. Has blue eyes— and a quick smile
Still can't believe his marvelous success will last
By WALTER RAMSEY
MEET
Photograph by Hurrell
ROBERT YOUNG
FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS
B
OB YOUNG is so much like my kid brother, that I'm afraid I can't write about him. I know exactly what he thinks of Hollywood; I realize just what he thinks he's up against and I know he's scared to death his good luck will fold up any moment. That's the way most young fellows would react to fame,
With Margaret Perry in "New Morals for Old." This is his fourth picture— all for Metro-Gold wynMayer.
especially when they've been brought up as Bob Young has.
If you knew Bob's story, it would be easy for you to understand why fame has always been something almost beyond his reach. You'd know why he's very close to heaven now !
Bob Young, (whom I always think of as "Young Bob" because he reminds me of a younger edition of Bob Montgomery) was born, about twenty-five years ago, in New York City. On the East side. At the age of ten months, he was transported to Seattle where he spent his earlier gurgling days on the South side! And at a very tender age, he was again transported . . . this time to Los Angeles, on the East side — which, by the way, is also on the wrong side of the tracks.
Bob, however, never realized then that the railroad tracks were a "dividing line" . . . they were just "the tracks" to him. In fact, he decided that he would go down and have a look at them that first afternoon ... on the way over to the school house. He didn't want to start school until the following Monday, but he figured he should give the place the once-over just to see what he was getting himself into. Many (Continued on page 97)
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