Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-01-06

From selling mems clothing in a
Butte store to Hollywood fame, via a
Los Angeles rubberneck wagon, Is the
mete0ric trip to success taken by Bob
Cakes, Montana youth known on the
screen as Lane Chandler. and soon 20
appear on the screen as the leading
man of Clara Bows new picture, RED
Hair"
Bob Cakes, tall, handsome and manly,
worked in Yellowstone park during the
summer of 1926 as transportation agent
for the Yellowstone Park Transportation
company at Old Faithful inn. While
there an independent producer, shoot
ing" a western picture in the park, saw
Cakes and told him he had great screen
possibilities. Right there the film virus
was inoculated.
When the park season ended, Cakes
went to Butte as the first lap of his Jour-
ney to Hollywood. He obtained employ
ment at the Shirley Clothes shop on
North Main street. and worked for sew
eral months to add to his stake" for the
assault upon the walls of the film capt.
tai.
Drove Rubberneck Wagon
Arriving in Los Angeles in December a
year ago, Cakes obtained a Job driving a
sightseeing bus. From that point Of
vantage he saw Hollywood. the city of
his dreams, along with tourists from
Iowa, Kansas and Indiana.
AS he drove past the studios, Bob
Cakes imagination was fired.
Some day soon now" he told himself,
III be on the inside looking out"
But the paths of glory via the cinema
route aren't SO easily travelled as all that.
The director who aroused Cakes ambi-
ton in the Yellowstone was absent from
Hollywood, and the film city seemed filled
to overlooking with good looking young
fellows looking for opportunities.
Then even the outside glimpses Of Hol-
lywood studies were denied him, for
Cakes was transferred to another bus
route.
Looks for Job Again
So Bob parked his bus in the home
depot in Los Angeles and told his bosses
that SO far as he was concerned 1t could
remain there. Then he started 1ob-hunt-
ing again.
1t didn't take him long to obtain q
position with an oil company as service
station operator. He accepted this Job
because the station to which he was as
signed was in the heart of Hollywood,
among the studios.
Here Cakes got his first personal
glimpses Of the stars he had seen so often
on the screen.
A lucky break then came Bob's way.
The director he had met in the Yellow
stone returned to Hollywood. This di-
rector was to make O two-reel western,
and he offered the male lead to Cakes.
Bob accepted and he was thenceforth
known as Lane Chandler"
On the strength Of his work in this
picture the Montana youth secured an
interview with Fred Datig, casting di-
rector at the Paramount studio, the big
film factory on Vine street. Datig took
up the case with B. P. Schultberg, as
ISOLATE producer, and Cakes financial
worries were over.
He was given parts in two successive
Zane Grey pictures, Arizona Bound
and THE Last outlaw" and then won
the featured role in open Range"
Then the Montana lad stepped out OF
westerns into a featured role In THE Lee
gion Of the Condemned" was next Sc
lected to play opposite Esthel Ralston In
Love and Learn" and now is about tc
start as Clara Bows leading man in hel
next starring picture, Red Hair"
And he got his stake for the Hollywood
invasion while working in Yellowstone
park n a Butte clothing store, and hi
first glimpse of Hollywood from the driv.
er's seat Of a sightseeing busl