Shirley Temple in "Heidi"
Return of the "Kid"
The later career of Jackie Coogan must be a warning to the very young. Twenty years ago he suddenly burst upon the world in all his glory. Chaplin found him ana presented him as "The Kid." The child very nearly stole the picture from the screen's most popular comedian. Vast multitudes raved about him and very soon, as was inevitable, he was a star on his own account, In "Peck's Bad Bo; johnny Get Your Gun" and half a dozen or so of other pictures he maintained his vogue.
Then he ceased to be a fascinating "kid"; the gawky processes of growing up began to threaten him and with sound he almost passed out of the screen. His career had seemingly come to an end in a few years. One heard of him going to college and one heard of imminent resurrections. Recently there were rumours of his appearance in Westezners and, as all the world knows, ffs money affairs have been made the subject of family jars, His marriage with Miss Betty Grable brought him into the limelight and with her he made, his re-appearance in College Swing.
This picture makes it doubtful if the once famous Jackie Coogan can hope for anything like a famous future, But Mrs, Coogan is vigorous and attractive. There are, therefore, chances that the boy with the starry eyes may remain before. the public in the company of his wife. But there remains the rather saddening moral for the popular juvenile, that popularity may easily pass and all the magnetic little tricks of the child actor or actress will count as nothing for endurance against the matured and intelligent technique of a mz. or woman who can really t Claire Trevor has been assigned by 20th Century-Fox to play the romantic lead in "Five Of A King," the new Dionne Quintuplets pic Jean Hersholt and Joan Davis are the other two players so far assigned to the cast supporting the baby stars
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