Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-06-08

wary ElllOtt s%$s&$S3
("ex" because she A'7z'AAA < ''S''s''''''~
promised Robert Robert Cummings
to give up her
career when they were married).
That document also is signed by
Bob's mother, Mrs. Ruth Cum
mings, who at II is an ordained
minister in the Science of Mind
church in Los Angeles. Mrs. Cum
mings performed the wedding serv-
ice at Mission Inn, Riverside.
The second document is four
year term contract with the Hal
Wallis productions which guarantees
Bob the opportunity of reestablish-
ing himself in pictures. The kids
been away from the screen for two
years, serving as an air flight in
structor with the United States air
forces.
He's Got Everything
The third bit of paper is his
medical certificate attesting that he
passed the air forces most rigid
examination with points to spare
thus Cummings officially is healthy,
he's in love, and he's got good
paying job.
"Those papers mean a lot to me-"
he said, "but they wouldn't guaran-
tee thing except for my philoso-
ply"
It's little odd to talk to Bob
about philosophy. His words and
thoughts just don't seem to fit his
face.
At 81 he looks like a college sophie
more. He hasn't the sign of night
club bag under his eyes. The make
up man doesn't have to camouflage
network of crows feet. His voice
is pitched in boyish enthusiasm. He
even stammers occasionally, when
words bottleneck and jam in their
eagerness to overflow. He's the type
grandmothers describe as "that nice
young mani"
On the set of "You Came Along"
where Bob is making his screen
temperance for Hal Wallis, Bob's
mind took a philosophical turn.
Hardness, I think, is the cardi-
nal sin," he said. people who get
a lot of bad breaks usually have
only themselves to blame. It's be-
cause they're most always a few
beats behind the normal rhythm of
life, and they get into trouble be-
cause they're always hurrying to get
caught up"
A simple thing like getting up in
the morning half hour earlier than
is necessary, Bob believes, would
straighten out most people and
change the course of their lives.
It's Worth Trying
ITS this way" Bob explained.
"You approach your day unhurried.
You have the opportunity of plan
ming your course of action. No
need to rush and tumble. Each
task gets the benefit of your COM
plete mental and physical energy.
Your work improves, no matter
what it may be. Your projects begin
to succeed. The result is that peo-
pie begin to look at you and say,
What lucky guy he ISL
cts timing, that's ALL"
Bob declares that acting isn't
nearly as important to him now
as it once was.
1.-THE main reason I'm back in
front of the camera now in You
Came Along is that the govern
ment feels it will aid the war eff
fort and that's the only kind of
pictures want to appear in for the
duration"
Although Bob's contract with Wal
lis is for four years, he is at liberty
to act only by permission of the
army air corps, from which he has
been granted leave. When the
picture is finished he expects to re-
port back for active duty.
It's far cry from the time when
I first saw Bob. then an unknown,
working with DeanIsa Durbin in
Three Smart Girls" at Universal.
At that time saw him in two small
scenes, but the kid had something
and I wondered where in the
world they'd been keeping him all
this time. told Bob that day that
he eventually would be making
$4,000 a week. He blushed and
laughed it off.
Parenthetically 1 might add in a
typographical aside, Bob, I told you
sol"