Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-02 | Page 25 | Film Habit of 'Typing' Makes Bob a Fighter

Film T l T Habit I of f Typing Makes Bob a Fighter A HOLLYWOOD A prime example of oC the movie mo business' business Inexorable habit labit of or typing its puppets Is 15 Robert Armstrong 4 who ha has spent about a third o of hl his cinematic career career ca ca- ca- ca reer punching or being punched by someone in a rop roped rop d arena for forthe forthe forthe the sake ot or Iho ho end and tho the gal Bob Doh Armstrong Armstron never npr h has I fought for a living in real 11 life Yet If fC It were erp not for tho the quaint sport ot of pugilism it is doubtful It If he lie would be known to half haIr the fans an he lie now ha lisa lias HI His holo picture career ha has been hen brightened b by th tho overhanging lights o of ot the fight stage e It t was v James Gleasons Gleason's pIa play Is Zat lt So which brought Armstrong to the Iho movies Bob left len college three months gradual Jon because bo bt cause cRUse a a. vaudeville vaude sketch ot of his in Portland succeeded Ho ITo was signed to 10 take tho the act lel to New York YOlk and ond that decided Melded him to be an actor and let lpt who would have the tho diploma After ACter war pcr- pcr cr- cr Ico vico ho lie Joined a a. stock company In which Jimmy Gleason Chenson on was the the comedian Gleason wrote Is Jg Zat So and pave gave ave tho the fighters fighter's role lole to Bob fbi Tho rho pla play went to New York and was a a. sensation FORTUNE FORTUNE ON ON CELLULOID It led to Cecil DeMillo's e signing n Is-n In him him for movies movle movies and and his first rol role was that of ot the prize fighter In InThe InThe inThe The Main Event Since then ho hohas hohas hohas has fought In Iii Celebrity ann and In In Bo Yourself the Fannie Brice talkie and ho lie wIll nil tight fight I ht again in hl his next Dumbbells in fri l' l Ermine In pictures alone ho he estimates ho hohas hohas hohas has won purses pUlses totaling around and anti In I Is Zat So on the stage ta e he lie earned a n. performance performance performance per per- for some 1500 1600 shows REVERSION TO TYPE Armstrong of or course cours has pla played other roles roeR yet et there can bo be no doubt tho lie movie makers like hIke him InI in inthe inthe the ring The studio which cast him himIn himIn himIn In In Ermine chan changed ed I his character In hi order to get him there Tho The play Weak Sisters basis of oC tho talkie has for Its central character character character char char- acter an author The Tho studio makes him hini a prize fighter fighter even even thou though h Armstrong having written his first vaudeville sketch ml might ht qualify as ns asa asa a literary p person The Tho nearest ho hohag hohas has hag como come to Hl literature In the Iho movies b by the way va wa was n newspaper W paper reporting report report- lug InS In Big News