The Washington times., 1935-11-02

had idea could cut her down and make swell sport
out of her. So started to undressing her. had
the old bus about sawed half when mother came out and
what doing
She took one look at Old Lizzie and decided it would
be too dangerous for me drive thing like that She
told me to take it back where bought it and get my
$3.50 It kind of broke my heart but drove it back to
to where l bought it. but couldn't get my money back
The boy bought the car from had my $3.50 on motor
cycle. Now out $3.50 and got going to ruin
vacant lot my house which mother doesn't want
to drive.
guess that's enough about my birthday, because sup
pose you want to know something about me.
started to work when Is months old in a vaude-
vile act with Sid Gold and stayed with him in vaude-
vile for five years.
In 1926 Mother brought me to Hollywood where first
worked in Will Morrsey Revue singing ballads and i'm
personatng Eddie Lambert. I in that show when
Mervyn LIE Roy saw me and gave me my first picture
job. I played the Big Hog Man from Walla Wala,
midget role.
: After that signed five-year contract with
motion picture studio and starred in 81 tworeel com
panes They the Mickey Mcclure Comedies, which
you probably remember
I Mickey Mcclure my real name but kind of
court doings would not let my real
given the name of Rooney.
: year ago given Observation-Disclosures
tract and played in six pictures during the first three
months.
Since then have been in lot pictures such
''Manhattan Melodrama,' - 'Hide-out which swell
rOe and role with Jean Harlow and Spencer
Tracy in ''Rff Raff'
When Mr. Max Reinhardt to Hollywood produce
midsummer Nights Dream" in Hollywood Bowl, he
wanted to do Puck. Metro-C o-C1oldwyn-Mayer let
do it and when Mr.. Renhardt made motion picture of
Midsummer Nights Dream I again loaned for the
role of Puck.
Did you Puck' Oh gee oh gosh and my good
did love that role. broke my leg right in the
middle of it. but Mr. Renhardt fixed it that able
to finish it. There's fulofthe-dev role for you that
made like Shakespeare. I studied him after that 10
lines at time, and in 20 of his plays secret. I've
mart in Shakn
ture and am crazy to do it.
like to play the piano and if do say it. can play
lot of things from ragtme to opera like dance and
have appeared the stage in everything from buckand
wing to Spanish fandango.
like to initiate peple like Ed Wynn Charley Chaplin
Baron Munchausen and Roscoe Ates am crazy about
foreign languages speak four of them including Japanese
IT. funny how learned Japanese. In school had two
Japanese paymates and for three years paid each
of them 10 cents out of my so lunch money teach
me five Japanese words day.
like to ride horses and swim and dive love foot
ball and captain of my own team which PLAYS almost
every week IN Gilmore Stadium at Los Angeles think
play tennis pretty well because the California junior
championship
graduated recently from Junior high school and am
continuing my studies under private teacher at the
MG-M Studio. At present taking government, his
tory mathematics English Spanish reading and etymology
have my own orchestra of nine kids and I have
basketball team and baseball play in ping pong
tournaments and | like to collect stamps
When grow up I want to be picture director When
get through with my high school studies hope to go
to Stanford I'm going to take up medicine think it's
the most interesting study there is just want to know
how to be doctor take of Mother and me
If get sick.
They don't have any movie directors course in college
but I'm going to be anyway.