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Young Mr. FarrellA And Young Mr. Rogers Are RunningNeclT-andi&feck In Their Careers
BY RUTH BIERY
THEY'RE both named Charles, with one nicknamed Charlie and the other Buddy. They started life within a year of one another, thus making Charlie Farrell one up from the very beginning.
Only Charlie began in Cape Cod, New England, while Buddy wore his first rompers in Oloethe, Kansas. But an average small-town American family is just an average small-town American family whether there's corn to the left of them, corn to the right of them or plain fish-smell all around them.
Charlie's father owns three theatres which had first innings on the small-town runs of "Seventh Heaven" and "Street Angel." Buddy's dad is lord and master of a handpressed newspaper which received advance publicity on 'Wings" and "My Best Girl" in time to scoop the Kansas City dailies.
Both boys are one hundred per cent Americans; to wit: the public schools and three years at co-educational colleges.
For some time it looked as though the spoon found in Buddy's mouth when he squalled his first welcome was solid gold, while Charlie's was only plated. All because Charlie starved and yearned, moaned and cussed for two and a half years like any other extra, while Buddy stepped from behind the baton of his college orchestra to a lead in his very first picture. But now that they're running neck •to neck we can assume that the spoons were molded from alloy in the one kettle.
"Old Ironsides" was the tee on which they met one another. Buddy was sent out from New York to play it. Charlie did play it.
It was Buddy's first hint that life isn't made to order. His heart broke into pieces. He wept gallons of tears, but he congratulated Charlie Farrell. Ana moved over to the Fox lot in "More Work and Less Pay" to let Mary Brian console him. She did so well that Hollywood rumored Buddy's first marriage engagement.
"Wings" was the second. Both were runners-up for the honors. This time it was Charlie who sneaked home and dropped his tears in the waste-paper basket. Charlie already knew that off-stage movie tears belong in the cuspidor or waste-paper basket for all the good they do the poor actor.
"Seventh Heaven" and Janet Gaynor were Charlie's compensation and you know what Janet did for Charlie.
To say nothing of" Rough Riders", made down in San Antonio next door to "Wings", where the boys became the kind of pals that make sob-sisters wear out the keys of their typewriters.
The third green, "My Best Girl" with Mary Pickford. And I'll be darned if the fishes from Cape Cod and the yellow corn of Kansas didn't run another competition. With the corn waving its victorious tassels.
Then the two settled down to the routine of making pictures. Charlie had "Fazil" and "The Red Dance" to offset the whoopee of his success in "Seventh Heaven" and "Street Angel." Buddy piled up some minor roles to bolster his skyrocket triumphs in "Wings" and "My Best Girl."
And now they're on the second nine holes of the course with the gallery betting just about even. Buddy's fan mail is twice that of Charlie's, but Charlie makes three {Continued on page 112)
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