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Picture s and Picture poer
APRIL 1924
Comes Back
The handsome cowboy of Universal days returns to the screen, much to the joy of feminine film fans.
Jack Kerrigan and Alice
Calhoun in " The Man from
Brodnexs."
Jack
War re u Kerrigan
' here is a rumour, let him deny
it who can, that the air was thick with sounds of " Hai the Conquering Hero Comes " the day Jack Kerrigan left his mother, his books, and his garden, and" donned cowboy garb in a studio once more. Also (this is fact, not rumour, he says it himself), he was offered enough work to keep him busy for the next five years the moment the news got around America. For Kerrigan of the curly locks, classic features and graceful acting has by no means been forgotten by the movie world, though he chose to forget it for over three years.
He faded out quite quietly, you remember, during the great slump, when movie stars were three-a-penny. He didn't wish to be one of a bunch of erstwhile screen idols playing any ok'. roles in any old films. Neither did a liood many others, although they did i because it was a ease of " Needs must." It wasn't like that with Kerrigan, though. Because he had been one of the earliest of the stars, and had never lost bis head, or wasted bis money (strange bow these two things go together), (lure was no " Needs must " for him. lie bad a pleasant site for bis idea of a home up Cahuenga way, a secure financial position, thanks to a practical brain behind a pair of itnquestionabh soulful eyes, ami enough strength of will to sit back and watch events for awhile and let tin movies go aboul their business without him. Up there, when his white, rambling house was ready lie settled, with his mother, and spent his days gardening,
Covered IVagon.' reading, going for long tramps with ins dog, ami entertaining his many relatives and friends.
Until James Cru/e commenced casting for The Covered Wagon. Now James ami Jack are both veterans. though neither are hoary-headed, and Cruze remembered bow many romantic
A studio portrait of Kerrigan.