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LIFE STORY
By
BOB MOAK
How the young Doug broke a promise to his father, married the girl of his heart, and became a star in his own right
Frequently, between scenes of pictures, Doug gets out the old notebook and jots down a poem or two. A volume of his poetry will be published this summer and a series of his articles will soon appear in a notable highbrow magazine.
Doug's heart wasn't really in the movies until he played in The Barker, with Milton Sills. That picture introduced him to the new technicpie of the talkies and it immediately aroused his whole interest.
Doug's biggest success in the dear dead silents was in the well-known Our Modern Maidens, in which he played opposite a certain young lady by the name of Joan Crawford. That was how they met.
signed "Dad and Aunt Mary."
The youngster who returned from New York with a bride and new responsibilities resting on shoulders long burdened, threw himself into his picture work with such zeal that it wasn't long before First National gave him a contract for featured parts in four films. He was now definitely established as a leading man to the feminine stars.
Stardom — that goal for which so many clamor and which so few attain, came to him when he was assigned to Sin Flood. In this he is supported by Dorothy Revier and Noah Beery.
THE courtship of Doug and Joan had been one of the most unusual in Hollywood. The boy who didn't care for girls, but went in for athletics, and who spent the major portion of his leisure time on the
•Doug was always the sort of boy who preferred athletics to girls. In fact, girls were just one of the things to be endured — until he met Joan. And how he changed then!
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