Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

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26 SCREENLANI) A Screenland Scoop, of the Carroll Rogers Interviews the By Nancy anry Carroll is doing a series of interviews for Screenland. She started zcith Hal Skelly and now Buddy Rogers is her 'victim.' I HAVE a brother named Tommy. He is red-haired, a little freckled, full of fun, and obsessed with the idea that he must get as many laughs from life as possible. I feel that I am closer to my brother Tommy than to an)' other member of my family and naturally I love them all. When we were children on Tenth Avenue in New him, I liked Buddy Rogers. Of all the young fellows in Hollywood he is the most lovable, the most genuine, the most friendly and the most unspoiled. Perhaps I had better not say 'the most.' I have many friends in Hollywood. I wouldn't wound any of them, in case my opinion matters enough to count either way. I'll say that he is 'one of the most.' No one can take offense at that! If I were the mother of an eighteen-year-old daughter; a mother who wanted her daughter to have the advantages of the best of everything, I'd wish her no greater luck than to have Buddy for her boy friend. What a good time they'd have! Buddy Rogers is the sort of boy who makes the ideal companion. With a group of older men he is perfectly at ease, and they like to have him around. He would be charming at home on those afternoons when his mother had a group of women friends about her. And he'd be equally great company for young sister and young brother and his gang. I imagine when Buddy Rogers goes back to his home in Olanthe, Kansas, that he goes down to the vacant lot behind the depot and plays Buddy, in his uniform for "Young Eagles," is telling Nancy some facts of (his) life. The interview occurred in the studio lunch-room. Buddy promises to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth to Nancy, made up for her role in "Honey." York it was Tommy and I who always played together. We and the other boys in 'the gang.1 We played baseball, football, follow-the-leader, marbles during the marble season, flew kites during the kite season, had shows and a few fights. " I know boys pretty well. That is why, from the very first time I met