San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-19
High School Teachers and
Friends Give Up Identifi-
cation Job and Simply
Call Them "the Spencer
Twins Exchange Every
thing But Their "Best
Girls" r,e''9.s

It's lots of fun TO be twins when
you look just like the twin. Leslie
and Wesley Spencer, San Antonio
boys think. They look so much alike
that they can fool their family, can
fool their bosses and could fool their
best girls-but they don't.
The other day Wesley "dolled up"
like Rudolph Valentino and with a
dancing partner gave an interpreta-
ton of the Valentines famous dance.
He looked so much like "the perfect
ly thrilling Sheik' of the movies that
the hearts of the hero worshiping girls
must have fluttered. However, Wes-
-ley's likeness to Valentino is even
less exact than this likeness to his
own twin brother, Leslie. The two
are so identically alike. that in
Breckenridge High School from which
they graduated in June, 1922 and
where they were we'll known and
very popular, they were simply called
"the Spencer Twins" to keep from
adding a confusion of names to the
already confused identities. No one
can tell them apart-even their moth
er-and such exact countarparts are
they of each other, in appearance,
height, weight, voice, manner,
thoughts. speech and in every other
variation of personality, that they
seem to be but one person, and to
need but one name between them.
Resemblance Is Remarkable.
BY those friends in Breckenridge
high school, who knew both boys
intimately, Wesley is said TO be
slightly more gay and Leslie a shade
more grave Of the two. One of the
teachers there who knew both boys
well, said the only difference between
them was that Wesley had a pocket
knife and Leslie didn't, but it seemed
to disturb both boys so much to
think that one had anything the other
hadn't, that even that distinction
was lost.
They exchange on their clothes,
their jobs. their friends. their family
without anyone being any the wiser,
but they make no exchanges-so far
on their "best girls"
"1f my brother likes a girl. ] keep
away from her." either boy will laugh
ingly explain.
One boy will apply for a job, and
get it, and the other will appear and
fill it. without causing the slightest
question or comment. For awhile
Wesley worked in a drug store, and
Leslie worked in a shoe store near
at hand, and when either boy got n
little tired of his particular job he
effected temporary exchange with
his brother. without anyone being
any the wiser. They say it would
often have been a relief to exchange
with each other in school except that
they were always in the same classes
and got the same grades so exchange
was impossible.
Fond of Each Other.
They are so fond of each other
that when they catch each Others
eyes across rOomful of people. both
will burst\ into spontaneous laughter
of pure pleasure.
They both say that they cannot re-
member ever having had disagree
/ ment in their lives, though some
times we have little scraps with our
three other brothers and two sisters,
| Just Ike everybody else does-but
never with each other.
I'VE suppose it is because we are
the only dark ones in the family, and
all the others are blondes"
In spite of their amazingly close
resemblance to the Latin Rudolph
Valentino, the Spencer twins are Of
Scotch-lrish descent, and unmistak
ably 100 per cent American from
their finely shaped heads, and broad
athletic shoulders. throughout theil
truly American length Of nearly SIX
feet. They are the sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. A. Spencer. of 1402 Mont
Grey street, and were born on farm
in Mckinney county. They will hav,
their twentieth birthday on October
!.
I Since graduating from Brackenridg,
high school, the Spencer twins hav,
had one years work Mt the A. & NJ
College, where they expect to go bacl
and finish in the courses they hav,
begun, but, Of course, considering theil
age and appearance, their ultimat,
aim is the movies.