Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-10 | Page 15 | Few Child Actors Can Keep Starring When They Grow Up

T 9 r Child Actors Can K Keep ep Starring When They Grow U Up 1 J ja c kie S ie Coogan Baby Peggy Pail Single Singh r 1 Exception E tr to Rule Noted 1 ItO Cal cai NE NEA A Al ti can be achieved In th thc picture l Industry Time Tithe After time time lI seemingly impossible le 1 foals feats t ate are flashed on the silver sUver screen sereen for the tho entertainment of ot the- the atro all audience l n es hd h f only ac accomplishment which practically Impossible M o far actor to growS eTOW tip Up in the J Industry S Scores ort of ot child players players' have laok looked d like like- great But Lt by iby one o one e th they have dr dro dropped by byth the v. v way ay ide Ev Even 1 Jackie Jackie- Coonan Coogan n. n and Bab Baby I e y two Awo of of the thO outstanding in the of or plc plc- t tunes turee re f failed n d to mako ni good Food when hen they started to grow up That Is III Isone one e way in which h pictures differ from fromn tho stage Many J legitimate actor actors and ane a who un ar are goIng oln strong started when th they y weN ren In 1 looking oldrig over over- ove the present ent crop ff Jim players ve tan kan a tl find d' d only lf on one lt out as n n. yo youngster l Arthur ArU Lake Arthur step stepped ed Jn In front of t a camera ner for the first J firne n h he V iI 8 s j JH just J 14 Yf years t of or ora a aae l the most awkward stage tag for i 1 at youths And h he ho never h has s stopped climbing since elrice il 1 wanted anted e 6 to go o. o into Vl plc- plc t turea ture In fn the he Arthur re- re 1 Z 1 It because e m my a stet U literally forced hie hu ne into it I hen 18 came amo to California t al j l d working In pictures and nd p i my myUn myn uncle n le got m mo a moa no Job with th the thet t 4 II Dye works work I lt tb thought I would ld leant arn dye eSte bu since h 1 I b en very successful In Jn that tI 1 l hat had kid been Ut there r sev- sev ey- ey v month L 1 almost almot lout lost R a couPle Rt-couPle couple of oC times for dyeing clothes cIoth it tl color I f. f J oI Bister sIster come came home and said she she had shehada bai V. V a a. Job for m me in a a picture re at nt Uni Uni- versal I was WM to have haye a I we weeks week's w work rk for fort w which l I would be bo paid 75 That looked like bIg money to tome tome tome me as 1 r was was' only c earning 16 86 is' is n Ia we k a the tho dye plant So I asked for tor weeks week's a lL vacation vaca vaca- t U tion p n but didn't say sy anything bout about what I was going to to do X 1 T. T was pretty terrible In In th that t pl picture t ro re bet bV- cause I T didn't know anything nJ about t I t tem themi I didn't oven even know how to 1 put on makeup However I man 1 1 ael to get fret t. t through the week and arid i then went vent back to my y regular Job ag again n. n I A short time l later Arthur was Again caled to to Universal and andr offered of offered of- of r- r I a contract and the tho lead in the Sweet Sixteen serIes serles of two two-t two reel el- el UK er that studio was about to to m make k He had put on his first pair of ot long tong trousers at that time Ha 1 Th was was was' nearl nearly 81 six aIr feet tall tan then and because of ot his heIght was QI con con- sJ more awkward r than thon most youths of ot his arc age However Ho it W was 8 his his' which mado mado- mad him lilman himan an nn instant In In fact It It be became became he- he came caine so go niu mu much h n a part part o of him lh that t tho ho has retained it to to this day Now ow at the hc age o of 20 he hc has play d awkward l' l boys BO so much that h h h. often octen Ups slips into Ills his e character char acter octer unconsciously in real life liCe He i Is is very much a a. part of the Industry try now however r. r So much mucho 53 o 0 In In fact th that t he lu of at t beIn being be- be In ing to continue his his' career AndIn And Andin in lit ree recent nt pictures particularly I Legs and Dane H Hp Hall lI which he hc has has' has mado nado for torn P p n-K-p ho he holia lia iia been portraying more grownup ri yes i It cart can t u y b be said saId Pt of t Lake Lak th that thet t l he has grown up with the film business s' s 1