Show Bob Finds Humor Helps Out By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD UP Robert tP-Robert Robert Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor br made an interesting discovery today about Robert Taylor Man he said laughing I must have been awful I never knew how awful I must have been until I made that picture He was taking about Waterloo Bridge the picture in which ex- ex pretty boy juvenile ex-juvenile Taylor attained at at- aJ- aJ tamed his movie majority by making making mak mak- ing big love io to the most torrid of the current Vivien Leigh People People Peo Peo- pie have been telling Taylor nice things about his performance people people peo peo- pie always tell actors nice things about their performances to performances to to their faces Taylor was accustomed accustom d to that too But when they say It now he said they say it with a sort of long last expression expression-as as if they can tell me now confidentially how bad I was before I always knew I was no good but I never suspected how much until now LeRoy who directed Waterloo Bridge and Is directIng directing direct- direct Ing Taylor Norma Shearer and Nazimova in Escape put In his oar Just wait till they see this one he said forget you were good in Waterloo Bridge Bridgel Im going to be no good said Bob of matter You think youre you're kidding kidding but but Im I'm going to tobe tobe tobe be no good LeRoy demurred seriously Youre going to be good Im going to be no good said Bob who seemed to be in a a discouraged discouraged discouraged dis dis- dis- dis mood Its a tough part part part- Im I'm in it all the time time and and they're going to tear me to pieces He looked game for the tearing tearing tearing tear tear- ing and that's the story of the triumph of Taylor If ever a lad took a beating In Hollywood that lad was Taylor Unknown one day the high school schoolgirls schoolgirl's schoolgirls schoolgirl's schoolgirls schoolgirl's girls girl's delight the next Taylor rose rapidly and hit the skids with equal speed His quick vogue landed him himin in the top ten list list and and the new years year's list found him nowhere about He was ribbed mercilessly about his beauty and his status as matinee idol Some say the virile treatment given him yanking him yanking him out of great lover roles into man he-man outdoor stuff like A Yank at Oxford Oxford Oxford Ox Ox- ford Roar of the Crowd and Stand Up and Fight did the trick What really happened was that Taylor somewhere en route between between between be be- tween mere bewildered youth and his present success developed a sense of humor He never could understand why when a fellow was just trying to get along and mind his own business keeping his feet on the ground and putting on no airs he should be picked on But Buthe Buthe Buthe he learned to laugh it off and andas andas and and- as ks usually happens the happens the picking stopped A girl named who has been Mrs Taylor for a year now doubtless had much to todo todo do with the change for if theres there's theresa a level head and a laugh in town Mrs Taylor has both Th This Thi's s Taylor boy despite Waterloo Waterloo Waterloo Wa Bridge still has no great ideas about his art He wants to stay away from the juvenile stuff if he can but DUt hes he's plenty happy to keep on doing as hes he's told by the boss oss His next picture Flight Command Makes Discovery About Self a 5 F- F 7 iii n. n 4 d 7 c f i jI A t w w e- e Robert Taylor Unknown one day at the top the next and hit I the skids with equal speed 4 |