(This talk is an exceptional colloquium of the Department of Mathematics.) A real-valued function, F, on an interval (a,b) is called matrix monotone if F(A) is less than F(B) whenever A and B are finite matrices of the same order with eigenvalues in (a,b) and A less than B. In 1934, Loewner proved the remarkable theorem that F is matrix monotone if and only if F is real analytic with continuations to the upper and lower half planes so that Im F is positive in the upper half plane. This deep theorem has evoked enormous interest over the years and a number of alternate proofs. There is a lovely 1954 proof that seems to have been lost in that the proof is not mentioned in various books and review article presentations of the subject, and I have found no references to the proof since 1960. The proof uses continued fractions. I'll provide background on the subject and then discuss the lost proof and a variant of that proof which I've found, which even avoids the need for estimates, and proves a stronger theorem.