Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for June, 1930 149 his body with chalk. The result was almost a suit of clothes. The only defect was that Kenneth neglected to leave an opening so that Dick could get into it. They attend the Hollywood Bowl concerts in a body and have the largest children's library in the city, but their money is being put away for their education because Mrs. Johnson hopes that none of them will want to become actors or actresses. They're already that, having played in innumerable films, "The Godless Girl," "Marianne," "Sparrows," "Winning of Barbara Worth," "The Way of All Flesh," "Wonder of Women" and tons of others. They're the most wholesome, delightful, happy lot you ever saw. They're too busy to think about themselves and become affected. UPON the slight shoulders of Nanci Price, that unusual kid in "The Doctor's Secret," rests the family burden. Her mother is deaf, so Nanci, who is only eleven, manages the small household. She has just completed a long part in "The Girl in the Show" for which she received $125 a week. Perhaps she is the strangest child of all. Old and canny beyond her years, she has the bills made out in her name, writes the checks, answers all telephone calls and only has a manager to keep herself from taking too little money for the roles she plays. She interviews all directors for parts and does the talking. "I'm often disappointed when I don't get cast," she said, "but then — that's life." I asked her what she liked to play. I thought she might prefer Hop Scotch to Run, Sheep, Run. Instead she answered, "Dramatic roles." I discovered that her recreation lies in dressing up and acting with her dolls, quite alone. But it is not a lonely life led by David Durand (you remember him in "Innocents of Paris"). Although he is only seven he plays at football, aviation, street car and school, and his life on the sets (I watched him at Columbia, doing a scene in "The Love Song") is also one long game, where it is a great treat to help the assistant cameraman mark up the scenes on the board. The only way in which he differs from any other boy his age is that he supports his mother, a semi-invalid with a dislocated back who was deserted by her husband when David was six months old. It is her job to keep the kid simple and unspoiled. When gushy ladies say, "You're just a little genius, aren't you? " Mrs. Durand adds, solto voce, "She doesn't know you like I do." It's the other children, however, who do the spoiling. They crowd around the youngsters to question them about their life behind the mysterious gates of the studio. But eventually the children become hardened to this and are embarrassed by the questions hurled at them. If a picture of Coy Watson is playing in town and if the members of his Boy Scout band find out about it and attend, his day is completely ruined. COY is the oldest member of the Watson family, another large and bounding brood whose careers are managed by their father, once a property man, an assistant director and an assistant cameraman. Their house, in the shadow of the old Mack Sennett studios where the kids were born, looks like a middlewestern farm. You stumble over broken skates and inner tubes. There is an improvised swing in the front yard, a trapeze made from a lead pipe and a couple of ropes, and an old saddle thrown over a carpenter's horse, for thrilling moonlight rides with Indians behind. Every kid in the neighborhood makes this his playground. This family includes Coy, sixteen, Vivian, fourteen, Gloria, twelve, Louise, nine, Harry, seven, Billy, five, Delmar, two, and Garry, seven months. They all appeared in "Drag" and in dozens of others including "The Very Idea," "The Smart Set," "The Callahans and the Murphys," etc. the linit beauty bath test that instantly proves you can have a skin soft as velvet! H, ere is a test that is a pleasure to make and will prove to you that your skin can feel soft as a baby's. Swish a fewhandfuls of Linit in a basin of warm water; then wash your hands, using a little soap. Immediately after drying, your skin feels soft and smooth as rare velvet. This test convincing s so that you will want to use Linit in your bath. Merely dissolve half a package or more of Linit in your tub and bathe as usual. A bath in the richest cream couldn't be more LINIT is sold delightful or have such effective and immediate results. Starch from corn is the main ingredient of Linit. Being a vegetable product, Linit is free from any mineral properties that might injure the skin and cause irritation. In fact, thesoothing purity of starch from corn is regarded so highly by doctors, thatthey generally recommend it for the tender skin of young babies. Linit is so economical that at least you should give it a trial. Let results convince you. by your GROCER the bathway to a soft, smooth skin When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.