Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-25 | Page 14 | Silent Screen Star Gets New Chance

Guy Lombardo ... Ha will appear ap-pear in person at Coconut Grove ballroom Tuesday night only. Silent Screen Star Gets New Chance HOLLYWOOD (INS) After too many tough breaks, "Baby Peggy" Montgomery, former child star but now grown up enough to have a husbsnd, at last will get a new deal from Hollywood. The girl, who made a quarter of a million dollars in the movies and then saw it all slip away from her, reported to a studio Monday to play a role In "Tom Brown's School Days." The part is being specially written in for her and. if she Is good, she will get another chance in "Utile Men." The person to whom Peggy owes the break Is Producer Gene Towne. He read a newspaper Item telling tell-ing how Peggy another husband, Gordon Ayrea, former member of "Our Gang" comedies, were hav. Ing an uphill pull trying to make ends meet. "Get hold of the kid," he said. 'Til give her a part." And so Peggy faces the cameras again this week on the same lot where two other child stars of yesteryear have found a niche in the industry thst almost forgot them. "Babe" Marie Osborne playa small parts and works as stand-in. Wesley Barry, the freckle-faced kid of the silent movies. Is employed, part-time, as a second assistant director.