On the occasion of his recent visit to England, little Jackie Coogan was welcomed with all that, pomp 2 and ceremony which once upon time was the exclusive prerogative li ference thit 5 a great deal mor: demonstrative. He was idolized by crowds. Even pressmen went into raptures about him, and wrote enthusiastically about this remarkable youngster's most astonishing career. The public was informed, and doubt-
*:|cinema wonder has less marvelled that the 10-year old nearly. a quarter of a million sterling, tha he has signed contracts for' four picture stories during the next tw. years and for each will receive. over +£30,000, that his eyes and hair have been insured for £50,000, that his parents allow him 2/6 a day pocket money, and so on. The child's progress through London was triumph, and singularly interesting ar showing the immense power of influence. Te who discovered little Coogan and gave him his first "part" as the waif in that great serio-comic story "The Kid," and the entirely lovable way in' which the youngest of actors acquitted himself more than accounts for his success. Achievements of this kind are possible only to the cinema artist. The greatest genius of the stage is encumbered by the ordinary human limitation of being in tone place at one time, but the cinema star, once having produced his picture," suffers no such disability. His art and personality are universalized and his audiences limited only by the number picture houses: scattered over five continents.
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