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HARRY CAREY
|F you were admired the w6rld around because you represented to myriads of admirers all that a red-blooded chapped and spurred Western hero should be, would you confess it if you were born in the East and studied to be a lawyer?
Harry Carey confesses to this sort of thing. He was born in 1880, on East 117th street, New York. His father was Harry DeWitt Carey of the New York Supreme Court. He wanted his son to carry out the traditions of the family and become a jurist.
It is altogether possible that the bench today would be graced by this sombreroed "son of the plains" if it were not for the fact that he contracted an illness which left
him a convalescent in the West for a long period. Prior to this attack, Harry had studied law at Hamilton Institute and at New York University. To go ahead with his reading of Blackstone while convalescing was out of the question, but time hung heavy on his hands and he had to amuse himself.
After a successful theatrical career Carey one day visited the old Biograph studios in New York. He was induced to come by his friendj Henry B. Walthall, and, as was the custom then among "legit" actors, the attitude was that they were just "looking on," But it was a dull theatrical season, and Carey, when he was offered a part in a forthcoming production, accepted. This with a feeling of toying with a passing novelty and a sense of doing something not quite becoming to an actor.
His success was immediate. He never returned to the stage, and from that day to this has found himself in a class by himself in his own particular brand of picturization.
Not only on the screen, but actually, is Harry at present for and of the West. Near Saugus, about forty miles from Los Angeles, he proudly rides his own range of 1,250 acres. His ranch teems with sheep, cattle, horses, thriving fields and well stocked granaries.
But the real rulers of the ranch house are Dobey Carey, just a year old, and Mrs. Harry Carey, who was Olive Fuller Golden.
He is six feet in height, weighs 180 pounds, and is of blond complexion.
Among his best known productions are "Overland Red," "Riders of Vengeance," "Roped," "The Fox," "Desperate Trails," "Marked Men," "Outcasts of Poker Flat," " Olaf the Atom," "Men Who Wouldn't Shoot," "Man to Man."
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