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GARY GRANT (Paramount player)
Cary Grant was born in Bristol, England, January 18.
His grandfather, Percival Leach, was a successful English stage actor who spent his lifetime in the theatre. His father was a clothing manufacturer.
While attending Fairfield Academy in Bristol, Grant became interested in electricity and at twelve conceived a new theatrical lighting effect which he carried to the manager of the Princess Theatre in Bristol.
The manager was so interested he permitted the youth to install the idea and operate it for a show. This brought the boy into contact with stage people and he developed an ambition to act.
Grant's chief interest at twelve centered in Bob Pender* s acrobatic troupe which did eccentric dancing, acrobatics, stilt acts and clown routine. So he ran away from school and home to join the company.
Four weeks at Norwich with this troupe learning the tricks did not destroy his theatrical ambitions, so his father wont after the boy and brought him back to school.
But at fifteen he ran av/ay from home again to join the same troupe and this time his father let his sonfs decision stcr.d. For a year, Grant appeared with the "knockabout" comedians, as England knows them. The company then came to Few York to appear at the Hippodrome. The engagement lasted two years in Ne\; York and the East.
Grant then returned to England, and spent too years in stock where he developed an ability to sing.
There he met Reginald Hanmerstein who signed him to a contract and brought him back to New York. His first work was in "Golden Dawn".
He had the lead in "Wonderful Night", and then played opposite Queenie Smith in "street singer". The latter was a Broadway success and played a season there, after which Grant toured the country.