Screenland (Nov 1934-Apr 1935)

for January 19 5 3 of Jackie's brief, and said the dollar was due and would be paid. Guns and shooting are Jackie's most absorbing hobby. He had told me he had a lot of fun during the filming of "Treasure Island." I understood why, later on — when he got to talking about shooting. It developed that Jackie had a memorable time on the boat, on which the company spent a month making "Treasure Island." "At meal-times," he said, "I would sit on deck at the rear of the boat and with a 22 cylinder revolver would fire away at the paper pie-plates tossed overboard. I sat there and took pot-shots at them as the plates floated by." He had some trophies of his New York visit of which he was mighty proud — what boy wouldn't be delighted with a real New York City detective's badge? Jackie had one, given him by a chief inspector. He 93 Close-up of a formal gown created for June Knight, who poses for you above. The fabric is a dotted satin. was equally proud of a pistol-shot honor insignia given him by some fellow-in-arms who ranks as a top-shot among the New York cops. The interview ended on a fittingly spectacular and pictorial note. I had asked him precisely what was the difference between "skeet"-shooting and the trap-shooting with which we grandpappys are more likely to be familiar. Jackie laid out the whole picture. "There is an enclosure over there, you stand back here. Set about in a semi-circle are stakes or posts. You take your position at one post, the gun is not held in firing position. By the count, one — two — fire?" All this with sweeping gestures and animation. As he counted "one — two" the imaginary gun came to a position across the body like "present arms" in the army drill routine; at "two" it was brought against the shoulder, the head dropped, right eye sighting along the barrel. I thought it a darn good show. Somehow the youngster had put into his description a sense of reality that had me seeing in imagination a stretch of shore land fronting on a bay or other open water. The otherwise calm and quiet was interrupted with shouts of "pull" and detonations barking from shotguns, as fragments of clay scooted out over the water to meet destruction in a blast of flying lead pellets. Jackie Coogan met Nova Pilbeam while both were in our town. Jackie gallantly visited at the hotel housing the little British star and her mother, and the newsreel cameras recorded their mutual greetings. Little Miss Pilbeam, whom you will see in "Little Friend," is a frail bit of a girl, very fair, with light brown hair and greyblue eyes, who takes her acting very seriously. That is to say the actual work itself has a tremendous hold, while the drumbeating set up in the interests of publicity surrounding her visit was a phase of her new career to be accepted politely but without any natural taste or relish therefor. Or so at least it seemed to your reporter when this very articulate, intelligent and highly-strung girl was interviewed in her tower suite. "I am small for my age," Nova volunteered during a part of the conversation, "but still I don't understand why so many people group me as a child actress along with Shirley Temple and Jackie Cooper. I greatly admire them both, and comparison with them is flattering. But really a girl fifteen is not a child ; many girls that age have played young women roles on the stage as well as in pictures !" No doubt you have noticed there are no children under Nova's age appearing in English pictures. "There's a reason for that," Nova explained. "In England the law prohibits children under twelve appearing on the professional stage, and under fourteen in films." Nova has been on the stage, professionally, in several plays since she was twelve. She is of the theatre to the degree that her father, Arnold Pilbeam, is an actor — a prominent one in England. He played the star part in the production there of "The Beggars Opera," and for several years before the death of Sir Nigel Playfair was the latter's manager. Sir Nigel operated the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, where many notable plays had their first presentation— John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln," for example. When she was five years old Nova was invited to play a part in an amateur Christmas play. And to that event traces her first interest in the theatre. "I liked it so much, though at first I thought little of it," said Nova. At seven she won, in competition with adults, a scholarship in elocution at a London dramatic school. Today she seems — well, a little old for her years — mentally, that is, but not emotionally. She seemed more anxious to get back home and to school than to be participating in the dizzy round of events planned for her by her press-agents in New York. 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