ROBERT MONTGOMERY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

ROBERT MONTGOMERY

TO DO WAR SERVICE LESSON TO ENGLISH STARS Robert Montgomery is about to leave for France to drive an ambulance. Bob Montgomery, whom I know to be a man of the highest principles, is temporarily relinquishing his screen career because he thinks that it is his duty to do this job of work in France, says a writer in a London paper. He has sent his wife home to Hollywood to join their children. He could, with every justification, have gone with her. After all, he is a neutral and under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some years, but

he preferred to sacrifice all the salary that this contract would bring him in order to do his bit towards maintaining democracy in which he has a fanatical faith. It is not the only occasion that Robert Montgomery has revealed the high principles which govern his character. It was he who put up J such a fight for studio workers in Hollywood in order to establish’their right to trade unionism. Then more recently he volunteered to come over to England in order to make “Busman’s Honeymoon.” He had intended to stay there and continue with a secc<id picture entitled “I Had a Comrade,” but when this tvas indefinitely postponed he volunteered as an ambulance driver and was accepted. After the war this action of Robert Montgomery will be just as clearly remembered as the reluctance of certain young Englishmen in Hollywood who, for reasons best known to themselves, are continuing to enjoy luxury plus safety some 6000 miles away from the war.