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Roland Young
Loves Two Women
And Tells Why
By Hale horton
THIS is the story of the world's most unusual triangle the story of an actor who actually loves his mother-inlaw. A mother-in-law, especially in Hollywood, is usually either a joke or a Tartar. Anyway, she isn't supposed to be anything human. When a marriage hits the rocks, she usually gets the blame. When the young couple are extra happy, she doesn't get any of the credit. She's something to be put up with, not esteemed. But here's the exception you've always wanted to meet. And found right in the wilds of Hollywood, at that!
I lie mother-in-law is Clare K u m m e r , ch a rm 1 n g worn an . m o t h e r a n d p 1 a y w right— vv h i 1 e t li e ni an is none other than Roland \ oung, renowned stage and screen actor, whimsical story-teller, sophisticated worldtraveler, valued dinner guest, gold-fish fancier and possessor of the world's most fantastic conglomeration of penguins.
He not only loves his mother-in-law, but, to quote the fellow himself, "It it weren't tor Clare Rummer, my career
very likely would never have amounted to a damn!" Rather a definite statement, don't you think? But then Roland Young, in spite of his whimsical nature, is a definite sort of a person, an Englishman with definite ideas, a man who can make up his mind in a split second and who knows precisely what he wants, in either business or pleasure. ^ oung admits, however, that he was not so positive a petson before meeting the woman who was to be his mother-in-law. In numerous little ways, she helped even to build his chatacter.
In considering Roland Young himself, first remember
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Did you ever hear of an actor s loving his mother-inlaw? But Roland Young, pointing to Clare Kummer/ famous playwright, says she s different. They were pals for fourteen years before he married her little girl, Marjorie (right) — and Clare made Roland what he is to-day!
that you've seen him in a dozen and a half pictures, notably in "The Squaw Man," "New Moon," "Annabelle's Affairs," "The Prodigal," "Pagan Lady," "The Guardsman," "A Woman Commands," "Lovers Courageous," "One Hour With You" and "This Is the Night." And furthermore, you were quietly enthusiastic over the whimsical high comedy so peculiarly his. I his son of Keith Young, famous English hospital architect, was born in London on November ii, 1SS7, and he has been at peace with the world ever since. Before going to the University of London, he received a preliminary education at Sherbourne in Dorsetshire. "A very old school," says Roland. "Alfred the Great went there, and all that sort of thing. The studies in my particular schoolhouse were Thirteenth Century monks' cells, budt below the level of the ground. But, as a matter of fact, this monastery life wasn't half-bad, as they served ale every afternoon. Although." he adds, "you couldn't catch a buzz on seventeen mugs of the stuff."
Even though Roland was a delicate child, he lived away
from home between the ages of eight and eighteen. "But
this had its compensations," he believes. "My being away
at boarding school thwarted my older brothers and sisters
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