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He wore slacks, (and no "tops"), under his bathrobe. There was a sort of desperate embarrassment about him. "But listen — there's no story to tell. Honest. It's all so doggone silly. It's," he fumbled for words, "humiliating ! I'd hate for people to think I'm the kind of a fool the newspapers have been painting me for the last couple of months because," he blurted, "I haven't got one cent more to spend today than I had before my birthday!" I said : "But what about your million dollar trust fund?" "There isn't any trust fund," said Jackie with a slow rise of the shoulders. "That's just a lot of hooey, made-up stuff!" I said: "Well then, Jackie, would you mind telling me the truth about all this and let me set the world straight on the subject ?" He eyed me unsmilingly. "C'mon in," he conceded. His slender physique, bathrobe flapping, sprinted in front of me in the general direction of the enclosed veranda of the exclusive beach club. It was deserted. Outside, the sun poured valiantly on the slate-gray Pacific. My youthful host thumbed me into a chair next to the one he had chosen near the window. The words began to pour out of his mouth. "Gee, I hope the folks who remember me on the screen don't believe all that guff that's being printed about me. It makes me out such an ass ; besides which, I never said a word of it myself ! "Listen, here's the truth about my million dollars ; I haven't got a million dollars— because, like I told you, I haven't any trust fund. I've been incorporated ever since I was a kid. That isn't the same as a trust fund, you know. My earnings have been carefully managed all through the years by my family and a very capable business manager. But I'm just as incorporated today as I was yesterday, and I haven't one cent more to spend just because I'm twenty -one. In fact, I haven't got as much, because I spent some on the way down here." He grinned at this lighter note in his financial discourse. "There's not a chance of it; but let's say, (just for fun), that they were to hand me today, in a lump sum of cash, all the money I have in the world. What do you think I would do with it? I'll tell you. I'd hand it right back to them. Every dime of it! And here's the reason: / don't think I'm entitled to it! "I had no more to do with the earning of that money — nor did I know any more of what I was doing and why — than does Shirley Temple right today! As a matter of fact, I had even less to do with my success than Shirley because there are some facts in my case that aren't a part of hers. How many people know that my mother wrote almost every picture in which I appeared as a kid star and that my father was the real director of almost every picture— no matter who got the credit? I had the best material and help from the people who knew me better than anyone else in the world. Of course, I got most of the credit ; actors usually do. But I haven't been fooled by that for one minute. / know who should get the credit : my mother and dad. "All my life, since I've been earning money, I've had an allowance just like any other kid. And I've had what I Evalyn Knapp and Milburn Stone, stage actor, light up after a happy hunting day in Imperial Valley. The dog seems jealous. wanted, within reason. That's important : within reason! I've never had anything but the best in the way of food and clothing, and mother always saw to it that I had enough allowance of spending money so I could live like the kids I went around with. But thank the Lord, I never had more than the rest of them. Right to this day, I find myself thanking God and my family for the fact that I was brought up to have a decent balance both on myself and the money I spend. Here is a good example : [There was something about Jackie's manner of presenting his case that made me wonder if he might not have had a legal education. The Kid is strong for Exhibit A!]. "I asked for a car every week of my life from the time I was sixteen until I was twenty. Nothing unusual about that, is there? Lots of fellows have cars even earlier. But mother made me wait until my twentieth birthday before I finally got one. So, for two solid months after I received the car as a present, I was up in the clouds of happiness. Other kids I knew, who had been handed cars and other things out of proportion every time they so much as hinted, seemed to get no kick whatever out of the fulfillment of their desires. They became jaded with more