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Taylor Tums."Lug"-onPurposeBy ED SUWVAN

Hollywood,Oal.

THE MOVIES often blun-der, but you might chalkup a clean triple for the

master minds of M·G-M in theirexpert handling of Robert Tay·lor, since a newspaperman inNew York up and asked him ifhe had hair on his chest, andt h r e e dizzy fiappers concealedthemselves in T a y lor's state-room. Taylor, at that moment,was at the crossroads of his briefcareer. Similar" pretty boy"p u b 11city had been vicious

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Looking at Hollywoodwith Ed SullivanStrickling, publicity head. Thatadvice was acted upon Imme-sdiately. "Yank at Oxford" and"The Crowd Roars" were madeso quickly and released so sud-denly that the town is still talk- .ing about 'em. In these two pte-tures, Taylor was shown as abraggart Yankee miler, and asa prize-fighter. In both of them,he was mussed up, and broughtdown to earth. In both pictures,the romance angle was playeddown almost to the vanishing.point with Maureen O'Sullivanas the girl in the case. The "Tay-lor Loves Garbo" approach wasabandoned hastily.

• • •In the parlance of the trade,

this is known as "The RoverBoy" buildup. A love scene issupplanted by the closeup of ablack eye, a soulful glance givesway to a good crack on thesnoot. Wistful language givesway to such phrases as "lug"and "mugg." In other words,adolescence puts on long pants.Taylor measured up to the new

demands made on him. In fact,he was delighted to get thechance. "I'm fed up to herewith those sloppy love scenes,"he told me at the EI Captaintheater; during a rehersal forthe" Good News" program. " Iwish they'd give me the kind ofparts where I wouldn't have tobe a sappy Romeo every reel."So II A Yank at Oxford" and"The Crowd Roa•.s" were rightdown his alley.In the meantime,. he had met

Johnny Broderick, famous NewYork detective and one of thetoughest hom b res that everbounced hoodlums oft the side-

Four rol•• marldDg the build-up of Taylor into a matin •• idoL Aa h. ap-pear.d. l.ft to right, in "Crim. Do.an't pay "t "Handy Andy" with WillRog.ra: ••Small TOWDGirl "t and "Magnific.nt Ob•••• lon••' hill big br.ak.

ginn him by Ir.n. DUl1n••

enough to overpower BuddyRogers. The industry and theM·G·M master minds shudderedand held their breaths. The wip-ing out of a $1,000,000 box officeattraction is hardly a laughingmatter, because in this businessa Taylor doesn't come along in ablue moon.The publlc rallied to Taylor's

defense. There was somethingabout the Nebraska kid thatthey liked. There was some-thing about the " hair-on-the-chest" Inquiry that struck thepublic as a punch below the belt.So John Q. Public, which is you,decided to string along with Rob-ert Taylor. You continued to at-tend his pictures.M·G·M then swung into action.

A valuable property had beendam age d but not destroyed."Take him out of these prettyboy pictures," said How a r d

walks of New York. Broderickwas out in Hollywood for a quickvisit and I took him over to meetsome of the cinema stars. Brod·erick, when he shakes hands, hasa habit of gripping and yankingyou toward him. When he gaveit to Taylor, the Nebraska kidyanked right back, and it pleasedBroderick: "Say, you're a wellset-up kid," he told Taylor ad-miringly. II You've got a goodmitt on you. If you learned tochuck a right hand, you'd tipover a lot of those bums whowant to know if you've got hairon your chest."Broderick and Taylor became

good friends in that meeting.When Taylor went east for theLouis-Schmeling ex p los ion,Broderick met him at the stationand showed him the town as fewpeople are privileged to see it. Ithink that Broderick did more to

bWld up the Neb r ask an's" savvy" than any single person,because you couldn't be aroundWith the Gotham detective longWithout acquiring some of hisgrim resolution and confidence.In "The Crowd Roars," Taylordelivers a couple of lines as onlyBroderick would deliver them.And he tosses a right hand theway Broderick throws it, thoughJohnny has a bit more umph-hwrapped up in his knuckles.Everybody out here is de-

lighted that Taylor has come outon the long end of the score, thathis career wasn't ruined, becausehe is a good kid. At no time hashis success gone to his head. Hecame from Nebraska farmlandsand he never has had difficultyin keeping his feet planted onterra firma.He never has been swept away

by the publicity build-Up becausehe was kicked around at thesame studio where he is nowf~ted, and he knows that thereis a lot of sham and pretenseto the whole thin/{. He doesn'tkid himself. M·G-M engagedhim reluctantly at $35 a weekwhen he came to them fromPomona· college. He hasn't for-gotten it."They used me to read lines

to other players who were being

"Taylor to•••Gar b 0," f1C1liUdth. billJuard.wh.n "eamw."waa rel.ased. Thfat y p. of .xpIoita-tloD haa b •• n '

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Robert Taylor a. h. i...-de.crib.d by Ed Sulli.an as " a nice kid fromN.bra.kcr with his fe.t 011the glOund."

screen-tested," he recalls. II Thenthey rented me out to otherstudios,like Fox, for one-lineparts. They shipped me to Texasby plane once to read one linein •Flirtation Walk.' When Igot there, the director wouldn'teven let me do the line. So if

~.i£e.1.Le~.~ieFD.Dear Miss T1n~e:I have just seen II The

Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and it is thebest pic t u reIhave ever seen.Could you pleasetell me whoplayed the partof Becky Thatch-er? Could youplease give methe addresses ofthe f 0 110win gstars: GingerRogers, FredA s t air e, RubyKeeler, DickPowell, andTommy Kelly?

Sincerelyyours,D. M.Z.

P. S. Could yousqueeze In a pic-ture of her [the little girl who playedBecky.]Editors note: Yes-I can heZp you out.

Ann GiZlia pZayed the rtlZe of BeckyThatcher in "Tom Sawyer!' You canwrite to her in care of United ArtiatsStudio, 1041 North Formosa avenue, HoZ-Zywood, Oat • . • The addresses you re-que8t are: Ginger Rogers and FredAstaire, in care of RKO-Radio Pictures,780 Gower street, HoZlywood, Oat; RubyKeeter and Dick PoweZZ,in care of War-

I ever get swell-headed, all I'dhave to do is to go to a projec-tion room and see one of thoseearly pictures and it would bringme to earth quick.'He says that Chester Morris

was responsible in large meas-ure for his first major success,

in" Society Doctor." He explainsit this way: "Morris was sonice and easy that he gave meconfidence. If I went up in mylines, Chester would say: •Hell,that's nothing. Everybody blowslines, kid.' So that was the firstpicture in which I didn't feelgawky. Up to then, I was prettybad. You see, I was about twentypounds I i g h t e r and I lookedgaunt on the screen. My eye-brows were too thick, too. WhenI started filling out, I looked bet-ter, did n 't look so thin anddrawn." • • •Irene Dunne saw him in "So·

ciety Doctor," and was so im-pressed that she asked for himto play opposite her in "Mag-nificent Obsession." That reallyestablished him.He has kept on imp r 0 v i n g

since that time, be c a use heworks at it. Directors will tellyou that there is no suggestionwhich he overlooks. "There'sno •ham' in him," said DirectorFrank Borzage, after II ThreeComrades." No higher compll-ment can be paid an actor thanthat, because most actors havequlte a bit of II ham" in them.Yes, indeed, the rover boys

have landed and have the sltua-tion well in hand.

Letters published in this department should be written on one side of the paper.If you wish a personal reply please inclose a stamped, self.addressed envelope,

ner8·First National Studio, Burbank, oaz.;and Tommy KeZZy, in care of UnitedArtiats Studio.

Dear Miss TiMe: We have recentlyseen ••Heidi," If Mad About Music," and••Tom Sawyer" in which Marcia MaeJones has had minor parts. Why don'tthey give her a bigger chance? Wouldyou please give us this Information: Whatstudios do the following stars work for:Marcia Mae Jones, Deanna Durbin, AnitaLouise, Sonja Henie, Loretta Young, Ty.rone Power, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable,Gary Cooper. Luise Rainer, Edith Fellows,Don Ameche, Slmxme Slrt1on, ClaudetteColbert, Virginia Bruce, Jacquelyn Laurorent, Spencer Tracy, Sybil Jason, RobertTaylor, Annabella, and LoUiseHovick.

Sincerely,J. J., M. B., and M. J.

Editors note: The star' li8ted in Jlourletter are with the foZZowinu studios: De-onna Durbin, UniversaZ Studio, UniversalOity, Oat; Anita Louiae, Wamers-FirstNationaZ Studio, Burbank, Oat; SonjaHenie, Loretta Young, TJI1'onePower, DonAmeche, Simone Simon, AnnabeZZa, andLouiae HO'lJick, BOth Oentury·Fo~ Studio,Bo» 900, BeverZy HiZZs, Oat,' Myrna Loy,OZark GabZe, Luiae Rainer, VirginiaBruce, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Taylor,Metro-GoZdwyn-Mayer Stu d i0, OulverOity, Oal.; Gary Oooper and OZaudette

ANN GilLISPlayad rol. of Becky 'n

••Tom S.wy.r."

Oolbert, Paramount Studio, 5451 Mara-thon street, Honywood, Oat; Edith FeZ·Zows, OoZumbia Studio, 11,38 Gower street,HoZZywood, Oat Marcia Mae Jones, Jao-quelyn Laurretlt, and SybiZ Jason are notunder contract.

Dear Miss T1n~e: Those who have seen••The Woman I Love," If CondemnedWorn-en," and If Mid.night Intruder ••saw a handsome,jolly chap whosen a m e is LouisHayward. I thinkthat he should becast in more im-portant pictures,for he is so good10 0 kin g and issuch a fine actor.Don't you thinkso? Will youplease print hisbiography and apicture ot him?

Sincerely,HELEN

DROZDIK.Editor's not e:

A Zetter that 8houZd make Louia happy!You can 8ee him now a8 the ••8aint" in••The Saint in New York." Here you arewith picture and biography. He was born

lOUIS HAYWARDSou9ht for bl99ar rola. In

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in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 19,1909. He's 5 feet 10¥, inche8 tan, Weighs154 pound8 and has dark brown hair andbZue·gray eyes. Educated high 8chool inEngZand. Hia hobbie8 are riding and Eng-Ziah hiatory. Appeared on the stage inEngland and New York before enteringmotion pictures. Made hia debut on thescreen in Engliah ver8ion of ••Sorren andSon."

Dear MissTin~: I don't agree with LeaShort's song suggestions for the followingstars. They suggest different songs to me,and I have named them:Clark Gable-" You Appeal to Me."Alice Faye-" Shenanigans."Mae West-" Every Day's a Holiday."Robert Taylor-" Postn'."Ronald Colman-" Thrill of a Lifetime."Joan Blondell-" Sleepy Time Gat"Hugh Herbert-" Dlpsy Doodle."Dick Powell-" Bewlldered."Virginia Bruce-" You're an Education."Eleanor Powell-" Rap-a-Tap on WOOd."Sonja Henle-" You Couldn't Be Cuter."Gene Autry-" A serenade tu the Stars."Ritz brothers-" Vlenl·Vlenl."Myrna Loy-" My Topic of Conversation."Nelson Eddy-" Got My Mind on Music."Clark Gable and Carole Lombard -" Two

Dreams Got Together."

LILLIAN OSWALD.Editor's note: Every littZe birdie to its

own song!