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BOBBY VERNON
OBBY VERNON is one of the youngest and most popular of juvenile comedians now on the screen. He was born in Chicago on March 9. 1898. and at an early age moved to to San Francisco, where he received an ordinary education, incidentally his first theatrical experience at the age of eleven.
He appeared for a few years on the stage with Kolb and Dill in musical comedies on the road and once took Max Dill's place when the German comedian broke his leg in "The Rollicking Girl" in the ( iaiety Theatre in San Francisco, holding down the part for three weeks.
Coming south to the goal of all actors, he put in a few weeks with Universal company and some time with Sennett. Curiously enough, his first experience in pictures, at the age of sixteen, was playing the father of Louise Fazenda, and during the first part of his engagement with Sennett played characters and old men with wigs and long beards.
It remained for Al Christie to discover his real worth and when he joined the Christie company four years ago his roles have been many and varied, the best of these being those of a green country boy which he portrayed in such Christie hits as "Petticoats and Pants," "Hey, Rube!" and "A Hickory Hick."
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and weighing 145 pounds. It is not generally known that Bobby's real name was Sylvian des Jardins, and that he is of French parentage, but he recently had the name legally changed to Bobby Vernon.
Bobby has had time for much in his short and busy life. Some of his most notable roles are some very clever female impersonations and that of the featured part in a recent burlesque on "The Three Musketeers."
In spite of his career, Bobby found time to join Uncle Sam's navy during the war.
He is married and very proud of Barbara Dorothy, his nine-months-old daughter.