Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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I had a nice chat with jolly Mrs. Evelyn Offields, Jack's mother. She has a bubbling sense of humor, and you can readily see where Jack gets his comedy talents. Mrs. Offield told me about how Jack, with the first money he ever earned when he was a kid — selling papers or something, — bought her a couple of pounds of lemon drops ! She says that she has some ot them yet. Jack calls his mother "Ev," He always has a date with his mother. for dinner. They always dine at Henry's on Hollywood Boulevard. "I make a personal appearance every night at Henry's," declared Jack with a grin. Jack takes his mother to a show about once a week, and he has arranged for life passes — he says! — to two theaters in Los Angeles. He has rented a small, cozy bungalow for his Ev, but he doesn't live there himself. He dwells, instead, in the place where he settled when he came to Hollywood several years ago. Jack is engaged to marry Gwen Lee, and now all three are pals. In fact it was~ at Gwen's that I met Jack's roly-poly Ev. Hardboiled and Happy [Continued from page 8J} Theatre. Jim talked it over with me and told me he had a play manuscript in his trunk. If we could use that, it would dispense with the necessity of paying royalties. "Jim got it out of his trunk one night and read it to me. It was a good play, but I saw no part for me. "Jim laughed. 'Sure,' he said, 'there's a swell part for you. The pug role!' " "I laughed at his suggestion. The prizefighter he wanted me to play was a toughie with an East Side accent. And me a Pacific Coast lad!" Jim Gleason had been raised on the East Side of New York and was a whiz at the Bowery accent. For hours every day he coached Armstrong and when Is Zat So opened, Bob was adept at the Bowery dialect and his "pug" role fitted him perfectly. "I think the biggest compliment of my professional career came when we played Is Zat So in New York, " said Bob. "A woman who had witnessed the play declared afterward that it showed wisdom on the part of the producer to go down to the East Side and pick an uneducated prizefighter instead of training an actor for the role! The person she was referring to was none other than myself, in person." IT WAS while the company was playing in New York that Bob met the young woman who became Mrs. Robert Armstrong. Since her marriage she has been winning fame for herself in stage productions on the Pacific Coast, using the professional name of Jeanne Kent. Jeanne had done some professional dancing and stage work and naturally had a deep interest in the theatre. In wimessing a performance of Is Zat So she found a great deal in Bob's work to be admired. She wrote him a note of congratulation. "Not a mash note," she says. "It was simply that I recognized a very fine piece of acting and I wanted to let Bob know how much I enjoyed it. He later telephoned to thank me for die note. "We discovered we both enjoyed outdoor sports and began to be together more and more." NX'^hen the play moved to London and gave indications of staying there a long time, Bob cabled New York. Jeanne came to England on the next boat and the young couple were married betv/een performances of the show. That was six years ago. ARMSTRONG first caught the eye of XjL film producers when Is Zat So played Los Angeles. "I was getting a knockout blow every performance and was just beginning to wonder how many socks I'd have to take for art's sake when Cecil DeMille saw me. He was looking for a pug to appear in The Main Event, and I was offered the part. And, well — here I am!" To date Bob claims he has made more money as a movie racketeer, gunman and thug than have the Chicago gentlemen who are in the business for keeps. "At heart," he reflected, "I'm just a quiet, home boy — so meek, in fact, that I hardly ever beat up my wife. " Armstrong says he rightfully owns half a dozen pullman cars and a big interest in a Statler hotel, but that he never actually had a deed to a home of his own until he became a picture actor and settled in Hollywood. His charming home is on a wooded hillside within a few minutes driving distance from the center of the film city. And he recently purchased a Spanish home for his mother, Mrs. Mina Armstrong, who came from New York to make her home near her son. Bob still keeps an active interest in sports. When Is Zat So closed its run in Los Angeles, he and Gleason bought an athletic club in South Gate, near Los Angeles, and installed Jack Perry as manager. They have four boxers now and are thinking of turning the club into a professional organizaaon. Bob recently signed a long-term contract with Pathe, for whom he has been doing most of his work in the past. Right now he is working on Lookin' For Trouble, starring Eddie Quillan. In this production he will appear once more with his old friend, Jim Gleason. "Ever want to go back on the stage? " Bob was asked. "Every time I see a good play my feet itch to get near the footlights," Bob replied. "On the other hand, when I think of those daily socks on the jaw I'm quite contented here among the Kleigs." 96