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THE PICTUI5EGO&I5
JUNE 1922
UAe FORTUHPQ OF XlGEL Q)
Being an account of the varied career of Nigel Barrie, British by birth, American by (movie) adoption.
kor a rule to work according to plan, it is absolutely necessary that it should have an exception. And in the case under review, the rule is " A rolling stone gathers no moss : " the exception is — Nigel Barrie !
Thirty-three years ago, Nigel started rolling, and
he's been at the job ever since. In the process he
has gathered much moss, in the shape of experience,
knowledge and histrionic talents, until to-day finds
him on the topmost rung of the ladder of success : a fully-fledged
film star of world-wide fame.
It may be the fact that he started life with the heavy bias in his favour of being a Britisher that accounts for his rapid rise to fame and fortune. One of his proudest boasts is that he was born under and within sight of the British flag, for the place of his birth was India, and the house in which he first saw the light of day was the only one tenanted by English in the midst of the native district, and the Union Jack fluttered proudly in the breeze there.
That important event occurred on February 5, and on March 5 his career of rolling began. He was exactly a month old when his family set sail for England, and who can say but what this sudden transition did not sow the seeds of that roving nature which developed rapidly in young Barrie ?
His parents settled in England for some years, and Nigel was given a real English education, which was finished at Haileybury. It was while at this college that he developed the first symptoms of the stage fever that was ultimately to captivate his whole life.
The Turning Point."