NEW JACKIE COOGAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

NEW JACKIE COOGAN.

FIRST HE-MAN ROLE. ; The man who is considered one of fha most eligible young bachelors in Hollywood to-day was the boy you remember as the pathetic, little, one-gallus waif in Charlie Chaplin’s “The Kid,” a wistful, appealing little chap who came up to about the first button on Chaplin’s vest. He is Jackie Coogan who deserted the films after he had made 18 pictures and returns now for his first grown-up role in Zane Grey’s “Home on the Range.” Now twenty years old, he has grown into a six-foot, broad-shouldered, handsome and athletic young man. And as if that were not enough inducement for Hollywood’s younger set beauties, he is the beneficiary of a trust fund of almost a million, built out of his own earnings during his years of child stardom. As a consequence, when a score of young ladies have been Seen out with Coogan, at parties, beaches, the Cocoanut Grove and other film rendezvous— Hollywood begins to buzz with the usual predictions. Coogan is either still too young, or too wary to be pinned down to any positive admissions on this courting score. It must be remembered that he is a veteran in the interviewing game. “Can’t a fellow step out without causing a lot of excitement?” he queries when approached on the subject of his amours. “Gee, I like to dance, go places and see things. There’s npthjng wrong with that, is there?”