The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-11
FRECKLES COMES
HERE IN FLESH
poceiyes Biggest Ovation
Ever Given q Mere
Boy Visitor
IS REAL JUVENILE IDOL
Gave the Boy Scouts a Line
party at Majestic After
His Reception

.H,, 1ero In his boy scout suit
noycrthins.
l,, T., the W. X. Coincr Of tho
,re not all I'm the dear dead
l, M yesterday was proven Mon
,o! ,r,u Skinnay and Shorty and
u' rnalr pals came runnin' Ike
'r,h.ug 10 The World office and
,r.d gouldcr street from Fourth
".irrIrl TO gee Wesley Barry. flesh
gfn1d incarnation OF their be-
e,J fary-buok pCnrOd. No IL
Wr.cII n1y ever came 10 Sulsa and
!'i,.I the ovation that "Freckles'
a. ,sgterday. Purple banners and
- gI9rv tossed, In the wind as a
i, line Of khaki-clad boys, led by
n9iformod band came marching
-, boulder from the Majestic
Ws,lrr and passing through the
,.,. forced through the crowds for
.Gs,, ny police. parked their guest
~ honor. frccklcs and purple ban-
I,rpa and an. at Tho World. Shrill
hrlrs came from hundreds OF ju-
..lc tbroats sped "rrCckles" on his
,,sy nm tho steps and all the way
,Ir5pah the crowd motherly
i,ckIng women patted him on the
Chandler. "Freckles' grinned back
Looked Very Boyish.
In on the high platform in front
,,tbe building beside the mayor. he
Looked very slight and boyish, very
,,urh the "FreCkles' of the silver
sbect The freckles aren't quite so
obvious In real life as on the screen,
some folk thought. But that didn't
make any difference to the rapt ad-
r.rers below him. Round-cyed and
. .5pln.mouthed. they watched him
present Mayor Evans with a basket
or oranges from tho mayor Of Los
Angeles-thcy knew that was what
he was doing because they had
rsad In The world that he was going
10 do ir. The irenzicd wind made
il impossible to hear very much
hat was said. When tho two turned
10 20 into the building, the crowd
surged into the building--as much
OF ir as would go in, 10 get another
glimpse OF the juvenile idol. All Of
fhe boy scouts went with Wesley to
the Majestic for line party. 1t
was "Frecklo's" party; before the
picture was thrown on the screen,
he made a little talk TO his scout
guests telling them how much he
appreciated what they had planned
t0r him and inviting them all to
come TO Los Angeles and sec him.
Mother * Proud.
While all this was happening. a
sweet-faccd woman with hair partly
g-ay and very smooth and shining,
eat In her room and waited. She
gas "FreCkle's" mother and she was
waiting for "Frcckles" to come back
TO her We talked to "Freckles' for
a little while. too, but the most we
learned about him was from his
mother By tho time that she had
talked about her brilliant young son
for little while II wasn't hard to
understand why Wesley Barry, for
all that he Is a high-salaricd movie
Sar of the first magnitude, Is a
regular guy. a little shy, "A little diff
ident altogether unspOiled. It's be-
cause he has u regular mother.
We never have been wealthy
iolks.' she said simply. her hands
FOLDED IN tho lap Of her plain sand
'oIortd gown. Work-wOrn hands.
hey mothers hands "And
now that Wesley IL making a little
money Is no reason why we should
be- any different from what we've
always been. We live together, Wes-
icy and me, and except for a girl
mat comes IN sometimes and cleans
Tor me- ! do all my own work. Wes-
icy likes my cooking. what else
does Lc like? OH" and she
laughed a little, "for all that he has
mind that Is rather mature, from
n,,hs with older people 50 much,
nt Just a regular boy In most ways,
lie is crazy about kames, football
ana basketball and baseball and
"nen ne visits the school that he
used 20 go TO. they always have him
umpire, After he began To give so
nuoh time to pictures, he couudu't
20 To public school any more. 80 we
nave private teacher for him.
wen l can't say that he likes ono
uay more than anothcr--he works
az ms books Ike he does his pie
,ureS concentrating his whole mind
on ". lie knows he has IT 10 do,
ana ne does II. hut he is really in
yIes'ol IN mechanical things
st''iilcity especially. lie Is crazy
aoout r1diophones and rs soon as we
~ BACK home he's going to have
!, rs own set Surely he can operate
great deal.
,,. Had Other Ambitions.
on know, when he was little
younger he always used To say that
..Ii,un "neun he got to be a man. W wasn't
sung TO he an actor-no Sir. lie
was going TO be an electrical engi-
Hrei' | believe now that he wasn't
;;ui't sure what that was, but maybe
ii.Ngd The sound OF words. Any way
,'c l' becoming very much Interested
now I'D the legitimate stage, and 1
,n.nN VIII probably try some spoken
p''.s some day You sec, he's neen
i'u lhe movies ever since he was n
,',ug chap--just a baby. We, his
n'Pa ana I, We're I'm business I'm
''l'II way IN the midst Of a picture
s,'nny and Wesley was a bare
'gsDgGG' treckled-faced and ! am
',.a'd, dirty baby that the picture
people took a fancy to. II began
A., 'aeir using him in baby parts.
'l"i ,,,i ishall Ncilan has always man
''Sf.u MN, and has brought out what
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