The New Movie Magazine (Jul-Dec 1934)

He Doesn't Want Fame (Continued from page 68) for Young says he couldn't get exhilarated on seventeen Sunday afternoon mugs of the stuff, served to lighten the lives of the lads who spent most of their time in their studios, which had been monks' cells in the old abbey days. He sang in the school choir, for which he got threepence, and in the chapel choir, for which he got sixpence. Arrived at a deceptive maturity, Young went into a firm of architects in London. While he is devoted to art, and does caricatures as a hobby, architecture did not fill his life, and he began leaning more and more toward an interest in things theatrical. "I was such a very bad architect — my father had planned for me to specialize as a hospital architect — that it was actually with a bit of propelling force that I made my leap from architecture to the stage," he says. Actually while he was ill of a severe cold, he and his father talked things over, and between the son's grunts, groans and snuffles, the father gave a dubious permission for him to give up architecture and attend the Tree Dramatic School in London, which he did, for a year. His first work was with Arthur Bourhies, in 1911, in "Find the Woman," and then followed stock in the English provinces. "Improper Peter" in London was a break, and such a hit that it attracted the attention of an American producer who brought him to America for the New York production of "Hindle Wakes." Then came shorter plays with the Darlington Square Players. Other New York successes followed, such as "Good Gracious, Annabelle," "The Successful Calamity," "Rescuing Angel," "Scrambled Wives," "Buddies," "Rollo's Wild Oat," "Pomeroy's Past," "Madame Pierre," "The Devil's Disciple," "Beggar on Horseback," "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, and "The Queen's Husband." MANY of these successes were written by Clare Kummer, whose daughter he married in 1926. Even his romance had its whimsical side. He had fallen in love with a pigtailed child in a gingham dress, whom he found tenderly nursing a pet hoptoad which was ailing with whatever it is that hoptoads get that ails them. He was often at the Kummer home in the years that followed, and the friendship between them quite naturally grew. When there was a question about the propriety of letting the young lady go on the road in some show, in the company in which Young was, he was stampeded out of his shyness and offered to make it possible and proper for her to go by marrying her. The wedding was at the Kummer Narragansett Bay home, on a huge porch overlooking the bay. Hence the marriage on the back porch already referred to. Looking for a bit of gossip, we asked Roland Young, while on this romantic topic, if he had ever fallen in love with any of the leading ladies or stars in his plays. (Please turn to page 88) The Netv Movie Magazine, December, 1934 Listen To The Tales Men Tell wm BOV, THAT WAS i,0/v\E DINNER. JANE COOKED LAST NIGHT, WASUT IT? JIM CERTAIN LV IS -A LUC<y FELLOW TO HAVE SUCH A CLEWED U/IF£/ -i I WISH MYWIT-E KV4£W SOfWE'OF JANE'S T5.EC!P£S OH, I^NOW THAT i AN SUV-E&, ITS A BOOK CALLED M4.EASV ECONOMICAL DINlNERS «44 EASY, ECONOMICAL DINNERS" is a 48-page cook book full of tempting recipes and menus, the kind of dinners that never fail you. It will show you how to add those special little touches which change dinners from the usual to the unusual. All so simple, too. For instance . . . Pear Salad with Ginger Sauce, GrapeNuts Tortoni, Asparagus Baskets, Jellied Walnuts — dozens of splendid recipes and menus you'll want to use time and time again. Send today for "44 Easy, Economical Dinners" 10c a copy. TOWER BOOKS, Incorporated 55 FIFTH AVENUE New York, N. Y.