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Davey Lee, whose screen career abruptly ended, is just a pupil in public school now.
BABY BREAD
If you had a movie child in your home, how would you protect his health and guard against premature inflation of his ego?
By A. L Wooldridge
A CHUBBY, round-faced boy, only one year old but with the intelligence of two, has stood Hollywood on its ear. The picture town has gone cuh-razy over Baby LeRoy Weinbrenner. Paramount has signed him to a seven-year contract and thereby has become the envy of almost every producer on the Coast.
"Where did they get him?" thousands of voices are asking.
"From the drama of life!" is the reply.
Ik-cause drama is all that Baby LeRoy has lived. Let me -ketch it briefly:
Into the Salvation Army Home in Los Angeles there came a wis]) of a girl, scarcely more than fifteen years of age, an expectant mother. Her husband was dead. Weary, dejected, afraid, she was without money just when she needed care and attention most. The Army home extended their aid. In due time a baby was born — ■ not an emaciated weakling as might be expected from a h a r a s s e d mother, but a healthy, glowing little bundle of animation — big eyes, big mouth, pug nose, and a -mile that radiated happiness and good cheer.
For months after their allotted time was up, Baby LeRoy and his mother were kept at the Salvation Army I Ini lie because of the personalis of the infant. Turn him out into the
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David Durand, the most polished of the boy actors, is the sole support of his mother at $500 a week.
There came the call from Paramount for a child to appear in "A Bedtime Story" and Baby LeRoy was the first presented.
Chevalier saw him. Baby LeRoy looked at him and smiled.
Jackie Searl collects five dollars from his mother
for each picture he makes — and he's not crazy
about acting, either.
"Why, he's even got the Hapsburg lip !" Maurice exclaimed.
Nearly one thousand babies were examined for the role. One hundred and eighty-two were given screen tests which cost the studio $22,000 before it was decided that no baby compared with that first one from the Salvation Army Home. So Baby LeRoy was awarded the part and his career was made.
When "A Bedtime Story" was released, letters began pouring in pleading for Baby LeRoy in more pictures. "The sweetest," "the most adorable," "the cutest," "the most lovable," were some of the phrases used. Paramount realized they had a find and the seven-year contract was
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