Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 15 | Trying to Grow Up

TRYING TO GROW UP UJ o-o o v Bronson Branson Doesn't Know Khow How r It Its It's i S pone r Done of i 4 I II If I f w 4 fi fim m 1 i A Betty Belty Bronson I want to do some dr dramatic matic chara characterizations Gridiron Started Johnny Mack Brown on Road to Film Fame By DAN THOMAS N NEA EA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD Cal Although the gridiron was as the highway over which Johnny Mack Brown traveled to the former University University University sity of Alabama halfback has never never never nev nev- er yet worn football togs toga in front of ot the movie cameras The handsome young athlete Is proud of that fact fact it it is his one boast that he lie has made good in pictures without capitalizing on the game same which m made de him famous I dm am m very happy happ over the f fact ct that I 1 have h ve been beAn be n able to make nake good as an in actor and not as is a movie football ll PI player r Br Brown wn told me Of course it would have hav been much easier for me to have haie made a football sto story y for my first picture Just jus a as Red fled Grange dl did but I believe I have llave bet been n more successful for having tn ed away from the gridiron As things stand now I have made good gOOlt entirely en- en entirely en en- tIr ly on my own ability and not noton noton noton on my fame tame as a football player GAME GOT HIM IN However Johnny realizes that if it had not b been en for the pigskin game same he never would have gott gotten n near a a. film studio let alone insl inside inside in- in sl side e of ot on one It was the gridiron plus George Fawcett plus Champ Pickens his m manager mager nager that put Brown into makeup H He met t Fawcett when the University of Alabama played Stanford at theROSe the theRose theROSe Rose Bowl Pasadena on New Nett Years Year's d day y 1926 During the following year Pickens did a lot of ot campaigning around Hollywood for Johnny Johnn And I when he be r returned turned h here here- re as s assistant coach With the Alabama eleven for tor forthe forthe 1 the 1927 game he stayed as Fawcett's Fawcett's Faw- Faw guest The combined efforts of PICkens and arid Fawcett secured several se ral screen tests for the young and a short time later Metro Mayer signed him himon himon himon on a a. long term contract For six months after acter I signed my contract I 1 played only a few small bits says Brown I 1 might just as tv well li have been back in Alabama for all aU the success success I 1 was having Then Marlon Marion Davies chose me as her leading man in The F Fair lr Coed That film was really my start and in the year and a half since I finished that I 1 have made ten more pictures which ih h have kePt kepi me mighty busy Johnnys Johnny's really big break came afew afew a afew few months ago when he w was s signed ary Pickford's le leading