The Washington times. [volume], December 01, 1936, Page 8, Image 8

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TAYLOR LURED BY CALL OF STAGE
WHILE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL
By LYDIA CALVERT
CHAPTER 8
The smell of the backstage
which to an actor is as compell
ing as the smell of sawdust is to
the circus clown, "got” Robert
Taylor in high school.
Looking back now he can see
the straws in the wind that were
Invisible then. From the time he
took his first lead in a school play
his life continued to touch the
theater without apparent plan
but inevitably time after time
until it had worn a path to Holly
wood down which he trod tri
umphantly. He muses:
"It’s a funny thing. Every
thing I did seemed to lead to
it I always wound up in
some play. I got into debates.
Music led me to radio. Even
up until it happened, though I
still thought I’d be a doctor or
a lawyer. I guess we haven’t
much control over those things.”
CHOIR SINGER
As class president in high
school, as singer in the church
choir, as master of ceremonies at
public functions, as soloist on
the cello, he was gathering ex
perience that eventually would
make him movie timber.
He had plenty of time for these
extra-curricular things because
study came easily to him. His
father cautioned him:
"Don’t be too sure of your
self, son. Study comes easily
to you, but there are other
things that we should know
that take a lot of study that
you don’t get in school.”
Robert looked quizzical. His
father continued:
"Human nature is the most
interesting study in which a
man can engage himself—and
the hardest. Study people, son,
and you’ll still have plenty to
learn when you’re a hundred
years old. But you’ll acquire a
lot of knowledge as you go
along.”
HIS VACATIONS
Now that graduation time was
here and college days loomed.
Robert took these words to heart
and later in college, away from
home, he used them as a guiding
principle.
But meantime came summers
at his parents’ cottage at Lake
Okaboja in Minnesota. Here he
forgot school and the responsi
bility of the future and settled
down to steady playing. He learn
ed to dance. He swam and
romped with his friends on the
beach. He had grown to full
manhood though he was much
leaner than he is now. His face
was aesthetically thin, his hair
black and glossy and parted on
the side with firm, determined
strokes of the comb.
A girl outranked him at gradua
tion. But by now Bob’s ideas
about the opposite sex were so
completely changed he was not
really disappointed. He was
proud to shake her hand. Stand
ing on the platform of the little
school auditorium with his moth
er and father smiling proudly up
at him from the front row he felt
that life had given him his full
share.
HONOR GRADUATE
He was a man. He was grad
uated with honor. His parents
were happy and well and he had
made them proud. What greater
riches could there be?
It was summer time. Life was
very beautiful, but days of lazy
sunshine stretched ahead inter
minably. From June until Sep
tember seemed too long a time to
loaf. Bob said:
"I got a job painting cars.
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ROBERT TAYLOR, as a
gay, young high school grad
uate, “supports” a friend
while on vacation. Inter
national News Photo.
I guess they sort of got me
then because now I make a
hobby of collecting them.”
“How many? Let’s see—l
have five. Boy, I’ve got one
1921 model ‘hopped up’ like a
racer. It’s got a super charger,
a cut-out, it’s been clocked at a
hundred and ten—it’s a doll!”
Beside the “doll,” which he says
he drives whenever he gets "an
afternoon off to crank it and
push it,” he has two large high
powered cars and two smaller
ones.
Worked In Field
He found time that summer to
work in the wheat fields and also
to take a job as a second teller
in a bank. After he finished in
the bank he would mow people’s
lawns. When he found time to
eat and sleep he didn’t say.
He put the money he made in
the bank into his account. He
used what he made from the mow
ing and painting to take him
I down to Colorado Springs, where
his family were spending the
summer.
Only one thing marred his hap
piness at this time. Painting
the great curving fenders of
other people's automobiles, tink
ering with the fascinating gadgets
on the dashboards, there grew up
in him an overwhelming desire
to own a car. But how could he
do it on the money he made? He
dreamed of gliding majestically
on rubber tires, of shifting the
purring motor into second.
Then as if he had read his
son’s mind, for Robert didn’t ask
for it, his father gave him his
first automobile.
(To Be Continued)
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936
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