Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-23
JACKIE COOGAN is
JUST 4 WIDE.EYED
AND LOV4BLE KID
Tisitor to Youthful Film, Star
Finds Him Hurting Paper
Wads at Daddy and Chor-
ling Orer Pictures Of Cir
Gus Freaks

7 TITLE Jackie Coogan is making the
Lhit of his young life AZ present in
Now York. 1t isn't a professional hit,
it's entirely personal.
\ writer for ono Of the theatrical
trade papers visited him one morning
and this is the impression he got
'Just a kid. that's all. \ good look.
ing dark eyed boy with blond bobhcd
locks. six and n half years old. who
thinks his daddy is the greatest man in
the world. That is all there is to the
much talked of and widely advert ised
Jackie Coogan. who came into fame
and fortune over night. His dad.
known to the profession rs Jack Coo
gan. like many other show folks. comes
from Syracuse.
Jack Coogan was formerly in vaudc-
willie with Eddie Cox at the Winter
Garden. New York. Later Coogan
toured Australia with Annette Keller
mann. Returning he did some picture
work in Los Angeles, and while there
little Jackie became acquainted with
Charlie Chaplin, which resulted in
The Kid.
Early in the morning Jackie WAS
still in bed. Not asleep, however. but
taking delight in hurliug paper wadS
at dads nose.
Chortles Over Giant
Jackie grabbed bunch of photo
graphs on the telephone stand and he
began to discourse on them. They were
pictures of the freaks at the circus
where Jackie had been the night before.
THE big hit with the Kid was the
liaut. Captain George Augar was his
chief topic Of conversation. The little
,ilN1T n q
side of the captains eight feet.
Daddy Coogan tried TO get Jackie
to talk, but the boy seemed upset that
strangers had come in 50 early and
robbed him of his early morning scrap
with the old man. He gained some sat
iSfaction from the fact that he managed
To plant his right foot CIcvGrIy in
Daddy's eye while Daddy was attempt
ing 10 explain some Of the points in the
picture
1T is remarkable and almost unbe-
licvablc to any ono not knowing the
boy to realize that most of the scenes
in the picture did not aavc to be taken
more than once.
Jackie is just n baby. wide. eyed
observing child, who retains more OF
what he hears aud secs than the aver
age child his age He is not abnormal
in any sense, but j. remarkable in many
ways.
"Lcaning more to being backward
rather than forward. he behaves the way
many parents think their children do
The homage that has been paid hin
docs not seem to have affected him il
the least.
Jackie Loves Cards
'Hc docs many things an ordinary
,,pI ,I,i1 # IA D,yn In IN q D
to understand. In an Offhand manner
more as though it was the usual rather
than the unusual.
The natural supposition would b.
that the life around the studio and the
work of making pictures would tenc
toward freshness in one so young, but
it all seems to have slipped past the
little fellow. lie is just big eyed
lOyable kid, with clCan-cut manner Of
speaking. using perfect English ano
cnunciuting beautifully, except when h,
is speaking Hog Latin TO his dad.
Jackie pet possession just now i
the ball and bat which figured in BABE
Ruth's home run. His dad says thcr,
seems to be a gamblers instinct in him
traced back to his mothers love 70
1920 poker.
Just what j. unusual in n chill,
would be a matter for discussion. WhcI
boy of six sits and plays Cauhcl,
solitaire it will be admitted 10y all a
somewhat out Of III" ordinary. Tina
is Jackic's pet diversion.
The boy Is a much handsOmer chill,
than the screen shows him. There I
something about him that just make
YOU want to hug him, which woul
probably be the best means possible O
gaining his cnmty. Sull be is just