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^Pretty soon Filmdom will have its Barrymores and its Drews
It's All in the FAMILY
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By Eunice yiarshall
.here's no getting around it, the pictures are growing to be more and more a family affair.
You doubt it? Then glance over the roster of the younger film generation, and note how many of the novices bear familiar sir-names. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., little Joseph Keaton, Jackie Davis, Constance Wilson, Winston Miller — why, sons and little brothers and sisters of stars are as thick about the studios as mosquitoes at a New Jersey picnic. And, in some cases, about as easy to overlook!
Perhaps the most interesting of the second generation of film luminaries is young Douglas Fairbanks. Interesting, first, because of the rather amazing circumstance of an unknown youngster springing into stardom and a salary press-agented at $1,000 a week, but which the lad himself ingeniously admits to be less, solely because he had the discretion to choose a famous father. But interesting also in his own right, because of an endearing smile and a cleanlimbed, wholesome boyish appeal.
Consider the Case of Douglas, Jr.
'ouglas, Jr., sprang, like the baby in the poem, out of the everywhere into the here. Overnight he was heralded
€[Top — Billy Bowes, son of Claire Windsor, who can wield a mean lipstick upon occasion. Left — Mildred David Lloyd, and her brother, Jack Davis, who is a graduate of the "Our Gang" Comedie :
as a star. Jesse Lasky proclaimed his signing of the boy as "the most important act of his career. Mr. Lasky's enthusiasm was not shared by Douglas, Senior, who felt, perhaps rightly, that school and regulation boyish pleasures were more wholesome for a growing boy than the exotic atmosphere of a motion picture lot.
But, whether Douglas approved or not, the boy arrived, and is at present snugly esconced with his mother, the first Mrs. Fairbanks, in the same vine-covered house on Weston avenue in which Mary Pickford lived before she became Mrs. Fairbanks the second. He had only one request to make concerning his first picture, Stephen Steps Out — there were to be no girls or love stuff in it. Young Doug added ungallantly that "such mush gave him a pain," strange words for an embryo matinee idol!
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Film Success — and Matrimony
s a rule, the road to "lead roles" is a weary one, beset with tedious journeys from casting offices to agents and back again. But Constance Wilson, younger sister of Lois Wilson, stepped from an extra bit in The Covered Wagon to leading lady in Walter Hiers' picture, Fair Week . . . and stepped out again into private life immediately after!
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C Why shouldn't I be a movie star, too?" Winston Miller asks his sister, Patsy Ruth Miller