Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-06-08 | Page 10 | No Stress, No Strain

NO STRESS NO STRAIN Engineering Approach Keeps Actor Young By GENE HANDSAKER HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD No Mabel that's not ot a shiver though this C California day is gray and cheerless outside my window as ns I l type Im I'm just shuddering at what bat a grim and regimented life Robert Cummings leads in order to be a movie star Back Back in in the emoting business after two and anda a h half Jf years as an ananny army anny flying instructor this energetic chap is is up soon after dawn every day He flings open the window at the foot of or his bed bcd Inhales and exhales noisily whaps a a. rubber stretcher arm-stretcher back and forth bends and stoops does dees pushups pushups all all this for 25 minutes No card games Friends yes but no getting together with casual acquaintances acquaintance just to hoist highballs Very rarely any nightclubbing night night- clubbing No smoking Ho He do does take a drink now and then Bobs Bob's reward for tor such a strict regimen Is bounding health his walk is practically a run a fine tIne figure and a remarkable hold on youth At 38 he could easily pass for 30 nosed Knob Bob doesn't Just talk a part Id studied mechanical engineering engineering engi engi- at Carnegie Tech ho said When the depression hit I had to go to work I decided to try acting and I tried to analyze the problems as an engineer would English actors were the rage on Broadway then an unknown American hadn't a chance Bob scraped up toured England by motorbike acquired an accent accent accent ac ac- ac- ac cent had himself photographed under a phoney marquee bearing his newly conceived name Blade Stanhope Conway He slipped the theater manager a pound five-pound note The ruse got him Broadway jobs Then Hollywood Bob analyzed analyzed analyzed ana ana- What had he to sell His youth and good J looks a ti i v. v i J f 2 I Ii f fJ Ak A J JI jt I I. I k PC c t v r tt y 1 rA 1 j r rt W t 1 rf P 1 I l ij A Arte S f il t G.- G. 2 20 1 0 i. i tf r rte i o f ei CUMMINGS ALIAS BLADE STANHOPE CONWAY Bob Cummings acquired an English accent and an English name in order to make his first break into the motion picture world