Show L Life Gives Parallel To Alger Story English S Star ar Achieves Rapid R Recognition co Leaves Inn t to B come Become come Actor By By FLICKER FAN It was was an American Horatio Alger who n made nde de the from poor boy to tob b bank k president formula known the world wand over oven But the application of that formula In real life isn't confined to these United States by any means In fact It ft wo would ld be difficult t. to find a b better example than the English actor Charles Charles' Laughton In seven short years ears ia rose from an obscure innkeeper to one of t the m most st f famous mou and best liked actors of or tod today y winner win winS net Her of of the Ac Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences s acting award for 1933 S Seven ven years ago Laughton was vas an innkeeper b in Scarborough England He lie was fat fal and rather odd looking But he hc wanted to be an actor His brother on on Me other hand wanted to become an innkeeper So Laughton Laugh LaughS ton said sd Here take thiS Im I'm lm going go ing lug or oz the stage He did dId- nd i in iii three yea years he became became became be be- came one oT- oT foremost Britain's f foot foot- footlight footlight light s tars stars rs Two vo ears ars ago he came cameto cameto cameto to this to nike make kc his debut in pictures and scored an instantaneous s hit rhen Then he hc returned England to England to tomake tomake make The Private Life Hc of Henry VIII He came back here again with Norma Shearer in The Th Barretts Bar Bar- reUs of Street N Now w hes he's hard at work on Ruggles of Red Gap A And das as soon as he finishes that hell he'll be reunited with Miss Shearer Shear r for lor Marie Antoinette Even Alger w would uld have a a hard time b beating that record Any movie act actor r who portrays portra's roles on on the screen jeopardizes his career every time he he visits a public place according accord- accord ing Dr to George Georce Raft I Im m a peaceful guy who likes to stay atay out of trouble says Raft but I scar scarcely ly ever eyer go out in public without without without with with- out being insulted by some smart aleck dently wants to be able to tell his lis friends that th h he hung one one me meon on George Raft The same sane thing happens to all fighters ari and 1 l most actors And we dont don't dare get into a fight because it would be on the front pages of all the newspapers But there is a limit to the insults any man marl can take So I find that the only wise cour course e is to stay away avay from public places as much as possible I can remember some years ago when Jack Dempsey was the champ of he hearing ring him complain of the same thing hing P PeOple PepIe had no idea of the in in- Jul Jack Tack took simply imply because the aggressors knew he didn't dIant dare hit them emi |