WES. BARRY'S AGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 August 1923, Page 7

WES. BARRY'S AGE.

MOTHER HATES TO SEE BOY ACTOR GROW UP. It's easy to see why "Wesley Barry makes such a crackajack actor in the movies, once r you have met him. For "Wesley impresses you as the regular Penrod sort —all boy. Wesley lives with his mother in Hollywood, where he was born, and is the idol of the neighbourhood.' And being Wesley Bm-y hasn't spoiled him. "You never hear him telling the other boys about things he has done and persons he has met," Mrs. Barry says. "You don't hear him say, 'Now, when I played in that picture with. Mary Pickford,' or 'When I met President Harding,' or things like tha^;. He's just a boy with the rest of them, and that's what I want him to be. "Of course, he's growing up, and, like all mothers, I don't like to see it. Wesley now is sixteen, and looking forward to going to college. But not before he has made a lot more pictures." He believes Heroes of the Street to be his best picture, for the reason that he did what he considers .his finest acting in it, and because it has a rattling good story. "It's got them licked, all my cftbfer pictures," says Freckles. "It's Exciting all the way through, but vhat I like is the scene where my father, a policeman, is out on duty.,. It's Christmas night, and all us kids are waiting for him to come home, and play Santa Claus. He is killed, and when we get ■ the news —welh there's the big kick of • the picture,''.