Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen ter at the memory of the way his strategy had put the enemy to rout. "You shouldda seen those kids run. They thought I'd shot that feller for sure. I wish I couldda seen them when they found out he wasn't hurt at all and that he'd come back on my side. I'll bet they were good and sore all right." A/TRS. COOPER, who always allows x Jackie to tell his own stories in his own way, without any interruption, has no more qualms about Jackie's future than all mothers must feel about the future of their sons. She isn't afraid that the rest of Jackie's life will be anti-climax, that never again will he achieve the same prominence and success he now enjoys. For she is confident that even after Jackie reaches a man's estate he will continue as an actor. And actors, especially actors of Jackie Cooper's calibre, never have any difficulty at all about keeping in the limelight. "Jackie always has acted," Mrs. Cooper explained, "even as a baby. I remember when he was only three how he knew every word of the Moran and Mack records we used to play on the phonograph. He never was taught the words or the tune. He picked them up of his own accord. And when we had company he used to get me to play the piano so he could sing those songs. Everyone who ever heard him marvelled at his power of mimicry." She smiled. "With a responsive audience Jackie never seemed to get tired. He'd say, 'What'll we do for them next ? What'll we do for them next, Mom ?' " Mrs. Cooper is an Italian, small and dark, with bright black eyes. Before Jackie scored his hit in "Skippy," when he was making fifty dollars a week those occasional weeks when he worked in "Our Gang" comedies, she supported the family by playing the piano in vaudeville. Johnny Cooper, Jackie's father, was Dutch. He also was a vaudevillian. He died when Jackie was two. And right here, even at the risk of sounding sentimental, I want to say that no part of Jackie's fame ever has compensated him for not having a father. TT isn't easy for a boy to be brought A up entirely by women. Fortunately Jackie's too inherently masculine for it to have made a sissy of him. And fortunately in all of his outside contacts he instinctively tries to make up for the masculine companionship he lacks at home. He pals around with Wally Beery. He adores a young uncle. And Johnny Weissmuller and Rich Dix are two other gods at whose shrine he bends a knee. "Public school !" Jackie made a wry face. "I'd hate the sittin' still and sittin' up straight part. When I'm having lessons there's nothing to stop me gettin' up and walkin' around whenever I feel like it." His voice grew confidential. "I really don't hate arithmetic," he told me. "They used to make me say I did. For publicity. Same's they made me say I didn't like spinach." YOU RE THE GIRL YOU USED TO Be! It was years since she had looked so young and lovely. Something — somehow — had been robbing his wife of the vibrant brightness he had always admired. .... Perhaps it's because gray hair comes gradually that you fail to realize how it jades your looks — sweeps you remorselessly into Heartbreak Age. You must cherish your beauty] Re-color your hair undetectable with Notox — an entirely new way that leaves your hair wonderfully soft and lustrous . . . Notox does not crust the hair with a surface plate of dye. It enters right inside the hair shaft — colors the hair where nature does. . . . Notox shades duplicate Nature's own. And remember, Notoxed hair can be washed, waved or sunned just like natural hair. Better hairdressers always apply Inecto Rapid Notox. Resent a substitute — no like product exists. Buy Notox at smart shops everywhere. • ® Send for jree booklet "HEARTBREAK AGE"— and name of nearest beauty shop featuring Notox. IF rite Inecto, Inc., Dept. 12, 33 West 46th Street, New York gLu& QrJ NOTOX C/o$m4 Italy iwuldL wk&re. lAcuLire ddo