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Oalute lVloy IXobson!
A great-grandmother, she's a fine example for every woman who's afraid of growing old
By Ruth Rankin
MAY ROB SON will be seventy years old on the nineteenth of April, 1935. For most of us, the late sixties are regarded as a ripe old age at which to retire and contemplate our blessings. If, indeed, we are lucky enough to be around contemplating anything.
But when this amazing woman could count three score years plus, she started out upon a new career. After twenty years as a stage star, and some years on the stage before she was starred, and then a successful silent-screen career, she launched out into the audible pictures to hang up additional laurels for herself.
May's vitality, her grand spirit, are marks to shoot at. If you have half as much steam at fifty, consider yourself a success. There is certainly no woman in public life who offers a better example to those who fear approaching age.
Sometimes she has as long as two days to rest between pictures. So she spends them sitting for portraits, shopping, or making tests at the studio. She goes to see a picture four or five nights out of the week. Sometimes she drives her car, sometimes Lillian Harmer, her friend, companion and secretary for more than twenty years, does the driving.
May Robson was born near Melbourne, Australia, on April 19, 1865. Her father was Captain Henry Robson of the British Royal Navy. He died when May was six, and she was sent to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in London. As no young girl's education was considered complete unless she spoke Parisian French, May was later sent to the Pension Passy in Paris, and to a branch of the same school in Brussels. Her life was extremely sheltered but very happy, because Sister Teresa encouraged in her the ambition to be a great actress.
A A AY ROBSON never knew poverty or privation in her ■*■" -*-youth. She had perhaps as fine a classical education as any actress you can name, and she fully appreciates it. But it did not make the way any easier when she decided to go on the stage. Many people did not consider acting a suitable career for a young girl in those days. She had mountains of prejudice to conquer.
From school she returned to London — fell in love, and married E. H. Gore, a handsome young inventor. They crossed to New York, established a home there, and a son was born. E. H. I Gore, Jr. still lives in the same home. So did his son, Robson Gore, until his marriage a few years ago. A baby girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robson Gore, has been christened May Robson II, which gives May Robson the honor of being the only greatgrandmother in pictures.
It was very daring of May to express a wish to divide her early
Approaching seventy, May Robson is today one of Hollywood's busiest stars. With her picture making she finds time to trade recipes with neighboring housewives and tell stories to all the youngsters on the block
married life with acting. But she had some friends in the theater, and they gave her the first boost. One day, backstage with one of them, she heard a frantic producer grappling with some lines in French which an actress was to speak. Impulsively, May rushed to their assistance. May wound up with two parts to play, [please turn to page 113]
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