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Johnny Jones
By FRITZl REMONT
When told to stand for a "still," he looked about eagerVj for a stick to whittle into some pet toy, and whipped out a tremendous jack-knife, the sort one gets as a gift when purchasing "American Boy" clothes. Johnny would make a fine magazine advertisement for ready-to-wears. He photographs heautifullv, with his bright, big grey eyes, which are as alert as those nf a sipiirrel. and his brown hair slays in place jWii';; he slicks it down with lots of soapy water, he admits.
There's no neglect of Johnny's education, for the Los .\ngeles school-hoard has set aside a number of teachers who look after the three K's for the studio kiddies. Johnny dotes on Sallie Svkes. his schoolmarm at (ioldwvn. ."rounds like a
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mcmlicr. i^ lypic .\mericaM..uid please^ I'.oolh I'arkingtnn. who wrote "I'.dgar" especially tij lit the licihlwyn boy-star. Ii.-ill so think of him. I'.ciidcs. the i«n\ers that be wont divulge liis real name.
and all that one knows of Johnny Jones' previous history is that he <liil a bit with Mary Pickford aiicc. and appeiired in some of the I'ranklin kiddie ]iiclures. Xobndy knew much about lohunv. but he iirescntcd himself among about four hundred i.tber iitlle hovs for Booth Tarkington's critical ins|)ection.
The author' had in mind a well-behaved little boy, one who w<ndd be pepful and thoroly .\merican. but oliedient. able to act :ind r|\iite original. Casting director and Mr. Tarkington sorted thru the entire aggregation and finally hit on Johnny \„i\v<. whom ihev bad seen in '"Hie Walls of Jericho."
jobmiv's famil'v consi.sls of a well-to-do business man father, a V.iung mother' and a tiny sister. He 'has been sensibly "rai-eil" an<l still retires at eight-thirty without a munnur. Ili< parents have taught hiin to be •^elf-reliant without, resorting to forward behavior, and I'apa Jones is always saying:
".\"W. Johnny, dont get a swelled head because you are an actor. lust remember that there are hundreds of other little bov-^ wlio coidd do the part just as well as you. and the minute voii think vou are )/, vou are going to be fired and one of those 'other liov^ will lill vour place. All you have to do is to be thankful' for this ojiportunity and the interest Mr. Ho|>pcr • :ke in vou."
I belie'xc Johnny Jones would be plain and witlwnit conceit wn uiihiiul p.-irental ;ulnionishmcnls. He's just all boy.
Johnny Jones, the Goldwyn boy-star, has been selected by Booth Tarkington for his "Edgar" comedies because he, (Johnny) is one hundred per cent American boy. That is to say. he is a well-behaved, scientifically inclined youth who adores fishing, hose-battles, chasing innocently-protesting cats thru back alleys — and the lavish expenditure of all his spare change for ice-cream sodas, which his leading lady, Lucille Ricksen, accepts most graciously
stage name, doesn't it; lust the same. Miss Sallie was born that way. There are not many in Johnny's regular class, Init I ho he's the oldest, he dnesn't lord it over I Ci'riiiiiiril III! I^itiic 7(i)