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Show By LYN CONNELLY pHARLES FARRELL and "Sev-Vj "Sev-Vj enth Heaven" are synonymous, at least in the minds of avid moviegoers movie-goers of the late 20's ... He played Chico opposite Janet Gaynor in the stirring drama of World War I . . . Now he's playing the part of a middle-aged father in the CBS-TV CBS-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 longtime long-time friend of Charlie's, that the star returned to public "life, and it is Hal Roach, Jr. who Is producing pro-ducing the series of T.V, domestic comedies. Farrell's screen . career, after some years of extra work, was launched in Paramount's "Old Ironsides," Iron-sides," directed by 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 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. When the picture industry apparently ap-parently was falling 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 race track and took in a million 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. |