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Mrs. Pat O'Brien was the
lovely Eloise Taylor whom
the late Valentino named a
prize-winning beauty
Though it took Pat five
years of luck and pleading
to get her, they're happily
married now
He Failed For A Million
S
TAR vanishes in Hollywood for three years — and makes
a million in the movies!
Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But wait. The star is an
Irishman. One of those six foot, divil-go-take-'em sort of fellows who are born with Luck for a middle name and Laughter for a charm piece. Maybe that accounts for it. If, faith, there's any accounting for Patrick O'Brien!
He has lived a life as full of drama and strange conundrums as one of his grandfather's stories. After that smash hit of his in the screen version of "The Front Page" people asked, "Where is O'Brien? Have you seen O'Brien? " No one had. They couldn't know that by a queer Hollywood twist, that "hit" had nearly killed him professionally! But it led him into making a fortune. That's the way things happen to him.
From the time he was born in Milwaukee on Armistice Day — several years before the Armistice
With laughter for his
was signed, of course — Pat has magnetized Fate, in one form or another, into doing tricks for him.
To start at the beginning — from a choir boy to chorus boy is a long step. But in between Pat was a sailor. That helped. He'd stretched the truth about his age to the recruiting officer, done a two year turn on the deck of a battleship and, the war over, he had stridden down Broadway prepared to give Hamlet a break.
"Hamlet!" snorted a theater manager. "Go take the strawout of your hair!"
"That," said Pat with dignity, "is not straw. It's what is left of the hey-hey from my sailor's horn
luck piece O'Brien has a philosophy that can beat the Hollywood jinx
By Jerry Lane
pipe!" So they put him in the chorus. At the same time, down the street in another show, was a redheaded hoofer by the name of Jimmy Cagney.
It was the ostrich feathers that did it really. They provided cos
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