The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1921, Page 25

“Jackie” Coogan, Aged Sis; } Salary $62,400 OWN BOY IN AMERI CA Young Movie Star Began Work at $150 a Week—Paid _ Ancome Tax on $50,000—His Parents Vaudeville ~ Aotors—Rich Man Once Offered Miliion Dollars to Adopt Him—Ambitious to Be Cameraman. — (Spectal Correspondence O8 ANGELES, March 18—John Angoles, Oct. 26, 1914, of Engl of The Evening World) Henry Coogan, film star; born in Los ish, Scoteh, Wrench and Irish descent. Reported salary, $1,200 @ week. Said to be third cousin to Lillian ‘Am above, the who's who of the -ftereen might read, notating the six- “year-old child marvel, who, playing ‘with Chartie Chaplin, has been set ‘upon « pedestal of fame by perhaps + Ge most famous of the cinema world’s ‘fgnres. , Who ts “Jackie™ Coogan? The @rl@ that puts Chaplin over in his Jatest picture—a picture which the @verage man, woman and child ““froughout the United States already has etood in Ine to see. Who ts “Jackie” Coogan? A child ‘with a soul, says Irving Cobb, apeak- ~ tng seriously. Who is “Jackie Coogan? Why, ttmply mother’s little darling, un- Spoiled, natural, unaffected, into mis- gbtef, says his mother, Mre. John Henry Coogan, nee Dolliver, whose father was a St Louis leather mer- edant, but who, herself, it may be, ave her son his early histrionic start by appearing upon the stage when the was four years old. +o Who ts “Jackie” Coogan? “He's a Mttle man,” says his father, at the Googan home here, No. 1768 La Brea Avenue. “And he's not @ bit up- stage. Some one told me the kid tad three personaiities,” added the parent. “I don't know about that but he bas a healthy appetite for playing with toys, only he always Mikes to build something practical, playing with what they call ‘erector’ toys.” The father, too, is known to the stage and before “Jackie” was a year old he had traversed the entire orbit of a well koown vaudeville circuit, with baby eyes and ears seeing and hearing his ail-Irish father dance and spin the comedian’s chatter. And, if wearied by pater’s contributions, here was mater, right alongside, wwelling the family purse with ap- pearances in comedy skits. So, there ;Beems to be a lot of inherited talent ‘Wm Charlie Chaplin's co-bidder for einema fame. ‘Whether it was heredity that made Nttle “Jackie,” to date, the highest- *‘ealaried child on record, or whether ft was the atmosphere of the theatre, which caused him to shuffle his little feet enthusiastically when supported ‘thereupon by parental hands at re- hearsals, the fact remains that at six years plus the tot is a finished actor, ‘ae near as a film director can detect. But, outside the camera's range he is simply a kid—a kid that stands out tm front of his parents’ house bare- headed when he should have his cap on and plays in the house with his cap Jackie and Charlie Chaplin Worked a Year and a Quarter to Produce ‘The Kid”’ ~The Comedian and Doug Fairbanks Amuse Him in Off Hours, Former With Music, Latter Play- hide and seck than “most is not boastful of his Screen accomplishments, but when it comes to “pictures,” otherwise, he is emphatic in asserting his talent. Just to Drove it, if he takes a fancy to you he will ingist on drawing your “pitchure,” if pencil and paper be handy. After laborious effort your “likeness” is presented you, auto- &raphod, likewise laboriously, “Jackie, * and all with more sincerity than a hero grown-up distributes samples of his handwriting. “I can write by od it, Crit I know all my A B os, ie explains, “Ma: to be an artist.” ote a aa In line with the infant artist's un- Gercurrent of conviction as to what creer he should have chosen in life was his observations anent his play- mate Patricia's pink hat, a really gale affair, but which forbade her earrying an also gala bead bag he had given her because it was blue. “Pink and blue don't match; that's why Pat can't wear that hat and carry the bag I gave her,” he said. Mrs. Coogan, in particular, says the boy’s future is for him to decide, He will not be overcultivated for the screen. “Jackie's” formal education, in accordance with the school laws of California, must begin when he is six years and six months old. That's soon now, and his parents, in lieu of sending him to the public schools, are casting about for private instructors. ‘Thus far the Coogans have progressed in the matter to the extent of decid- ing to engage a tutor for him. In the mean time the parents are trying to arrive at a conclusion as to which film company offer—already there are a number—would be the best to accept, acting for their son. Quite fabulous salary offers for the little one’s services are understood to have been made, but the parents assert their chief interest in these contract offers is not so much the amount of salary as the best guarantee for the symmetrical development of the THIS ONE |S VERY FETCHING! TOO SHALL. MY HUSBAND DOESN T Plike A LARGE HATS on, And this despite unconscious ef- forts to make him artificial, from the ~» S@pproach of many interviewers, ovre@Jackie" already has ideas of the tage. At present his determina- tion is to be a cameraman, when he grows up, but his mother already }.mbows signs of correcting this error. uiThe child, as he explains, does not »odmtend to deny himself stardom to be ‘@ccameraman with any ideas of en- sshancing film art by superior camera «work; rather, he thinks cameramen have more opportunities to go duck * hunting. He already is in training for the ducks with a toy “twenty- two," with which, he asserts, he has shot a rabbit, “Jackie's” affections, thus far, ~emong his professional acquaintances seem centred ypon Chaplin, for whom “he protests devotion. Next come Douglas Fairbanks and, inclustvely, Mary Pickford. Behind the regard for Fairbanks is a red silk bandana .. Which the films’ formost athlete re- cently bestowed upon “Jackie.” The child cinema marvel is already ** looking into his professional future, materially at least. “My next studio,” he says, “is going to be built of brick. Then there will sure to be some bricks deft over, and I can use them to build _ things when I'm not acting.” There's a neighborhood grocery not far trom Jackie's home, and it’s not ‘tor publication that the star of First National Pictures, Inc., just like the Test of the kids around for a block «or 80, patters there in quest of all-day Suckers and such Wke in the candy. “tine, But, for public reading, Jackio finsWUl tell you he thinks the ideal diet for genius, aged six, is shredded wheat and cream, but that he likes bananas “and cream “best of all." “And I go yt bed every night at $ o'clock and smamma makes me stay there until § wuabe next morning," the child added, as if to round out this discussion of a » certain phase of hs daily regimen, & will insist that, whatever studio he goes to on a contract, the moral atmosphere surrounding him shall be such as will allow him to grow up with a strong mind and a clean oné, fitting him for an honorable career as well as @ brilliant one--if that be his destiny, truly, John Henry jr, is starting off in life without thus ‘far the more or less “The banker's cry of “Save, save," 1, ..g@¢ms to have been already heard by praise '0 s q expected visitations of the train Jackie,” along with mother’s admo- of juvenile maladies—chicken pox, nition not to lie on the grass in the mumps, whooping cough, &c—#o “winter when warm. essmoney in <astlow much? | week!” depressing to childhood's fancy, Prior to his appearance in a pro- duction with Chaplin this child wonder had no experience in the cinema world, He had done a little turn in vaudeville with his father, But Chaplin happened to be a spec- tator to this ttle act, and that's how the present professional connection happened to eventuate, “L put all my the bank,” he asserted, Oh, all—~$1,200 a He did not say, however, that a nice little slice of it went for \® Packard and is going weekly for upkeep, including a chauffeur, with “Jackie” confesses, he would Yatemt talents, Further, they whom, (enile’s This wae-1o- ddr, By Maurice Ketten MEN DON T KNOW ANYTHING | SAID A LARGE HAT Los Angeles, und “Jackie's” stunt was to dance. It was an interlude in a clever little set, the feature of which was diving by Annette Kellermann. Thus cast and sponsored, “Jackie” was able to “get over’ to the accom- paniment of a storm of applause, One of those who applauded was Chaplin, And it was on a Friday night. This was in May, 1919, The next Friday, Sidney Grauman, a prominent Pacific Coast movie im- presario, introduced Chaplin to the Coogans. Then followed the child's appearance in a fashion revue given by the motion picture studios, and on third Friday the casting di- rector for the Chaplin studios offered ©. Coogan a year's can- tract for “Jackie's” services. Says Mrs. Coogan: “We were simply amazed. We didn't know what to think of it; we couldn't think. Just imagine: Mr. Chaplin Said he would pay us any amount of money we named to have ‘Jackie’ work with him a year. Finally, we got our wits back und it was settled that ‘Jacki® should receive $150 a week, Then begun tho picture which has made us ad) famous. “The picture took a year and three months to produce, and every morn- ing ‘Jackie’ would arise and be off lke a man going to work. But had very short hours and there we: no ‘cuss’ words within his hearing.’ ‘The child wonder of the screen & most magnetic mite, drawing all te him, Once, while in St. Louis, ac- cording to Mrs, Coogan, she was ap- proached by @ man of great wealth who offered her a million dollars if she and Mr, Coogan would allow him to adopt “Jackie.” The millionaire had noticed the child playing in a hotel lobby, and, explaining his offer eaid he had become forthwith so at- tached to the little one that he could “JACKIE” COOGAN started to PPP LPL LPL PLP PP PLL DRESCRIPTION ‘ BY NEAL R CHARA °* When the Volstead Act Bloomed on the Nation Beer | Had a High Collar On—It Was All Dressed Up and No Place to Go— But Palmer Found a Place for It to Go—Providing You’ ve’ Got a Prescription, wi Copprighs, 1911, by the Prose Publishing Co. tke New You Bvening Wert.y Asi ALMER'S farewell address to the Anti-Saloon League didn’t have the audience that Harding’s inaugural grabbed, but it was easier for the common folks to understand. Tho achievements of the Party now read as follows, in the order of their importance: (1) Bave us beer. (3) They won the war. America will still be blowing’ the foam off its prescription brew long after the war has been pald for. —« If Henry Ford helped build up Detroit, think of what A, Mitchell Palmer has done for Milwaukee! In his whole official cateer Palmer pulled off only one boner. If he really wanted to be President why didn't he give us that decision on beer before convention time last June? On » platforms of hope for the ailing, Palmer could have been Prexy for two terms, an@ maybe @ third round. For if two candidates were running and one offéred government for the people, of the people, by the people, and the other offered prescriptions for the people, you know which side of the would be buttered with a landslide. . Palmer has decided that if 6 per cent. is 0. K. for the mortgage ou your home, it would be satisfactory for tho beer Im your cellar. Onder his ruling Beevo is useless for anything except extinguishing fres « flooding Jandscapes. a When tye Volstead Act bloomed on the Nation beer had « high eller on, It was all dressed up and no place to go. But Palmer found « piace for tt to go. Beer can now go wherever the fing files, provided you've-got & prescription, America is commencing once more to mean what it did i Ih Nae i THE OTHER GUY OFFERED PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE, the days of our forefathers. The forty-eight stars on our flag now meam 4s much a the three on a Hennessy label. The Statue of Liberty steps of her shroud! The statue used to hold # light in her hand. it makes no difference waether it’s a ight or a dark she holds, 60 long ase know it's beer! af The prescription has changed all this. A prescription ts a of paper that any nation should be willing to fight for, A pteseviption.gaaaE that the pen is mightier than the copper coll. Inthe old days a dogtor ased to keep the breath of life in a patient. To-day {t's a stronger breath than that. Under the new freedom a doctor may preserve a rummatic’s toneils in alcohol by merely signing a prescription. Showing that skill triumphs where dry sleuths fear to tread. igs Yee, folks, it looks like the Anheuser Busch League had snatched the pennant from the Anti-Saloon League. The voice of the people has always cried, “I'll have the same.” Now it'll get it, To-day, where darkness once prevailed, both light and dark now prevail. “ Closing the home brew outfits and opening the breweries may be tough on accident insurance, but otherwise it’s a grand thing. On receipt of the news International Prescription Paper Jumped 18 points and Brass Rail Consoiidated is the only rail that is now above par. Milwaukee's pop n will soon be increasing by hops and bounds. ee Under the new rules a doctor's signature makes a rescription: valid and a patient Invalid. A beer prescription will make the agile walk with a stagger and the keen-visioned see half-blind, It will baild up a thin man to walk thickly. Palmer has certainly created another crop of dollar-a-year men. A dollar for the prescription and a year to use it in, But in the rush to the old corner dragstore thousands of invalids are going to die from fractured skulls, trampling and sflo~ parent Palmer has retired with this satisfaction: ‘There'll be more folks grabbing beer prescriptions than voted the Democratic ticket Tast an ith eb ns ee i i! work at $150 a week. His sal- ary is now 62,400 a year, or $1,200 a week. Just when this fall. The new Democrats. party will be technically known as B, V. D's. Beor Vat enormous salary went into ef- fect Is not known, but a week ago he pald an income tax on an income of $50,000, i UST as Mr. Jarr had reached in Two sons of this man were officers in the American army in France. ‘ust now the perils of an artistic eor are being brought home to Mrs. Coogan 8 her ears catch some odd sayings by “Jackie” and her eye catches him in an occasional prank F r a reprimand, ‘Then says Juokio’:; “Well, mudder, — papa shouldn't have let me play I'm Peck's Had Boy.” The production hinted at is the latest one featuring the child and it just has been finished. Irvin Cobb had a hand in it. “But,” said Mrs. Coogan, consoling her fears of contamination of the theatre, “ ‘Jackie’ {s just full of mis- chief, anyway—like all children, I guess—and never too tired to play The long months of production de- voted to “The Kid,” the offering via which “Jackie” has at go fender an age arrived at fame, were del.ght- ful ones for the child aside from business-like studio interests. Al- ways while the play was being filmed there were play hours for the tot—hours when Chaplin, an accom- plished amateur musician, would bring forth the violin and ‘cello with delight the child, fond of J went out. He was all dressed save his shoes, and these his hands grasped in the dark and when the lights went on again the shoes were on ag well and he was rushing to join Mrs, Jarr. It was to be a big night to-night Dinner at the Hotel St. Vitus and then to the theatre Mrs. Jarr had her new evening gown and Mr. Jarr was also all har- nossed up for high life, but judge of hie horror as the taxicab stopped at the gilt and onyx portals of the St. Vitus and the flunky opened the taxi door, when Mr. Jarr became aware of the fact that he stood in full evening drems wearing light yel- low tan shoes! He would have turned and fled, but Mrs. Jarr had preceded him into the hotel while he was paying the taxi driver, as she thought. ‘There was nothing to do but to which (0 ie Searlter infancy. So bragen it out and, If possible, to keep mire almost, after luncheon the his ghastly secret safe from Mrs studio stage would become the scene Jory for an impromptu concert, with &” He disposed of his overcoat and hat Sistas 0 oe and, Peery he to the check room bandits and hur- musicale “was varied; for when ried Mrs. Jarr into the gilded dimng Douglas Fairbanks would stroll over oom, and as soon as he was seated, PG eee eins aioe: he hid his feet under the table from noon, susand & terrible, untamed Mra Jarre eyes. wild horse, but finally subdued by But the haughty disdain of the head that extraord vary Dronahe byenee wa.ter and the grin on the face of SIRO COOP ae vecah “Jackie the servitor he despatched to walt on the Jarre gave Mr, Jarr the ashamed avsurance that every supercilious me- nial in the place knew he was wear- ing tan shoes with evening att! because he was a poor hick from Gopher Prairie who knew no better! “What's the matter with you?” asked Mrs. Jarr, noting h@ nervous- ness. “I hope you are not repenting for asking me out to have dinner and to take me to the theatre. I'm sure I didn’t ask you to, but you aaid you had mado some extra money and that I deserved to have @ mice time, and" — ‘Here Mrs. Jarr pawsed lo sob softly a ee ~ icks, Some of his famous camera tric t those funny falls. meackie'a” mother was born in St Lou's, and her parents—her father feured leather merchant—live in San Francisco. Her maiden name was Dolliver. Family reoords say she is second cousin to Lillian Russell. “Jackie's” father was born in Syracuse, N. ¥., and tn earller days was known to New York theatre- goers ag a dancer. Also, while in New York, he enacted many rales, as a member of different stock com- panies there, For three years he played with Jack Norworth in “Odde and Endy.” During the 1014-1915 acason he was with the Chleago ‘Winter Garden show, ‘ 4 TAGGART. the closet for his shoes the lights “ TAF. JARR FAMILY Ts . ME CARDELT Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Breutns Wort.) , and to endeavor to hold tack het Care, “Please, please, I've troubles of ty own,” said Mr. Jarr. At these Mrs. Jarr fished out her handkerebiet, As though this were @ signal that she was a damsel tn distress, the head waiter, for he had noted the tan shoes on Mr. Jarr and knew he didn’t belong, came over and, ignoring the man in the tan shoes, remarked. to Mrs. Jarr most solicitously, “Has this party insulted you, 4 “No, this party hasn't, you walle eyed Wop!” cried Mr, Jarr, to prove, by being abusive, that he was @ gen- tleman. “Well, what's the lady erying fort asked the head waiter, while all-the other waiters gathered omt around, the orchestra stopped play~ ing and all attention was directed toward Mr, Jarr. Because she finds herself i@ @ joint of this kind, which may be raided any minute!” snapped Jarr, “Come, my dear, let us go! “Why do you start a quarrel with me and then a brawl with a walter? whimpered Mre. Jarr. “Because I'm a marked man, and my social career is ruined forever!” whispered Mr. Jarr. “By mistake and in the dark T put on my tam shoes! Will you ever forgive met Nover!" erled Mrs. Jarr, “Oh, didn't you tell me before started And it was in vain that Mr, Jare endeavored to explain how it all hap» pened. GOING DOWN! BAR Contented One: CONTENTMENT 18 DEATH TO SUCCES8 for it carries with it a spirit of eolf-satistaction which meang that you could do no better i you tried, The discontented always are striving to better themsetves and their work, 4, Be happy, yes. t However, the discontent yeu have with your work means you are capable of doing more than you are now accomplishing, TRY TO DO MORE. y your ‘oe ‘ my ' by, ~- ane emi attny ERS RSET er re eee 00 eee «een een eo