Modern Screen (Dec 1933 - Oct 1934)

Modern Screen AND TD THINK THEY USED TD CALL ME SKINNY Sophisticated Schoolboy (Continued from [>age 58) to you as nearly like a Noel Coward play as was possible in 1920, and five minutes later playing practical jokes. He was a tall, good-looking youth with more poise than most of us will ever have, an endless store of vitality, a startling disregard for matters of etiquette, and a twinkle in his eye which won over everyone who saw it. If it did not occur to those who knew him then that by 1932 he would be one of the most popular movie idols of the day, it is because they never gave his future a thought. To be sure, they came near to predicting his career after he left the little Hudson River town to seek his fortune in New York. It was rumored that Bob, with no training of any sort except his experience in theatricals at the Pawling School for Boys, had accepted a job in the chorus of a musical comedy. I remember the town's saying, "He won't stay there long. That boy will do something big." AND they were justified. For the young Robert had everything that makes a popular idol of any sort, with a few other things thrown in. Even at seventeen his conversation was a delight. His ability to amuse didn't consist of a use of the puns and wisecracks which so often pass for humor in a boy. He had the intelligence, the natural high spirits, the originality and the sense of humor which are the ingredients of true wit. At the Pawling School he was, as I have mentioned, a member of the cast of all the plays produced there. But do you think he played the hero? Not Bob. He went in for character parts, preferably spinsters. Beacon was the town he lived in then, in New York State. His father was vicepresident of the New York Rubber Company there. Beacon was barely large enough to be a city, but boasted the steepest incline railway in the world. The cable cars went from the foot of Mt. Beacon to the top, where you had your choice of penny arcades or dancing on Wednesday and Saturday nights. Beacon itself was no different from any other town its size. There were mountains to climb, woods to walk in, and the little Melzingah River for skating and sailing. As a young boy, Bob lived at the hotel with his younger brother, Donald, and his father and mother. The idea of living in the only hotel in town added glamor to his life. It was tremendously exciting to have dinner there. Mrs. Montgomery almost always took her meals in her room, and sometimes Mr. Montgomery would dine with her, leaving them alone in the big hotel dining-room. They felt grown up and cosmopolitan. The Montgomerys had a car and chauffeur, and obviously money. Mr. Montgomery was always impeccably dressed. I think he was the only man in town who wore a Chesterfield and a derby. Bob's clothes were better cut than most of the boys', too. 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