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Show mfri i i nuiiiiiii mninrini By LYN CONNELLY piHARLES FARRELL and "Sev-enth "Sev-enth Heaven" are synonymous, at least in the minds qf avid moviegoers movie-goers of the late 20's ... He played Chlco opposite Janet Gaynor in the stirring drama of World War I . . . Now he's playing the part of a middle-aged father in the CpS-TV CpS-TV series, "My Little Margie" . . . His daughter, Margie, is played by Gale Storm, who has three children chil-dren of her own ... It was at the behest of Hal Roach, Sr., a long- time friend of Charlie's, that the j star returned to public life, and ; it is Hal Roach, Jr. who is pro-! pro-! ducing the series of T.V. domestic I comedies. ; Farrell's . screen career, after some years of extra work, was launched in Paramount's "Old Iron-I Iron-I sides," directed b- the late James Cruze . . . "Seventh Heaven" followed fol-lowed (1927) . . . Then came a series se-ries of other Fox pictures, including "Street Angel," "The Man Who Came Back," "Sunny Side, Up,' and others, most f'f them with Janet Gaynor ... In 1932 he married mar-ried Virginia Valli in New York ! City . . . She had been a screen ! star in her own right, but retired upon marriage. j When the picture industry apparently ap-parently was failing for him, he hied himself to Palm Springs, picked up a piece of sand which later became the lucrative Racquet Club ... It was on Christmas Day of 1934 that he opened the project . . . The following day, Hal Roach Sr. went down to the California desert spa, ran Into Charlie and asked him how he was doing . . . Farrell, in all honesty, replied, "Well, we took in $18 yesterday" and Roach, in all honesty, said, "Well, we opened the Santa Anita j race track and took in a million i and a half" . . . The chickens came home to roost for Charlie ... In the years that followed he has made close to three quarters of a, million a year with his original pile of sand. He and Virginia operate the club together and during the summer reside re-side in Beverly Hills. |