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Show Stars' Children Take to Stage They Seek Careers Like Their Parents HOLLYWOOD. School is out in Hollywood and the movie stars' sprigs are getting summer jobs. As movie stars, of course. Gloria Swanson's daughter Is talking about a screen test; Charlie Chaplin's son is starring in a play; John Barrymore's boy is sweating over his movie debut. Even Judy Garland's baby is a movie veteran. To old-timers in Hollywood, this looks like where they came in. Joan Bennett's daughter is testing test-ing for one of the biggest parts in her mother's new picture, produced pro-duced by her stepfather. Harold Lloyd says Harold, Jr., will be in his next comedy. "His sisters think he's very funnv," Lloyd said. "They never laugh at me. Oh, the trials of being a father." Jr.hn Barrymore, Jr., a 17-year-old copy of the great profile, is earning $150 a week for the first acting he's ever done. "The ham came out in me when I was 15." young Barrymore says -I took a walk and looked at the stars a long time. All of a sudden I knew I had to be an actor." He's trying to see all his famous father's pictures now, he added He'd previously seen only "The Invisible Woman." Sydney Chaplin. Charlie's 22-year-old son, is a big hit in the 'Circle Players' "Anna Lucasta." He's been acting with them a couple cou-ple of years and says he'll do his first movie when they make one. "My dad's very pround of me," he allowed. "He never misses a show." Fifteen-year-old Melinda Mar-key Mar-key has talked her stepfather, Walter Wanger. into testing her for the part of Rebecca in The Ballad and The Source which will star her mother, Miss Bennett. Ben-nett. Tve always wanted to be an actress like my mother." she said She was hoping to debut on the stage this summer, she added, un-S un-S the family deeded to take her to Italy where the picture will be mGter.a Swanson's daughter. M.ch-ele M.ch-ele Bridget Farmer. 17 ha., been talking with producer, about creen tests ever s,n,,h,, mother introduced h,, - 1 ' |