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Magazine Secton Magazine Section FOUNDED IN 167 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1936 SECTION vf UJ i a lcle At sgro AxQ A. BEU merle id ftol I rial iy Uh BERI jj lothei Shirley Temple Is So Outstanding in Her Class That Her Imitators Get Jfe A com I nerlci vent id rower mpeti pacjtj ain Nowhere in Hollywood But the "Brats'1 Are Winning Jint Wither! ityi yon can't be mean in the atudio aa yon are on the acreen or they would throw yon out She likea the feminine tender in all thin fa lirl babies, girl puppies and girl cats. They lore yon better," she say a OweM ate nerlci he icaso sh by conda, By Alice Tildesley Miss I fu i i i it rld an allfied igerj n' The 1 at in a sec indin no )th '0 clla lalitlt irrmi Keln st te th 5 tci ask ans, 1 nifhet All 1 out the door and there was a crowd of kids that didn't have the money to get in, so they yelled would I give them' my autograph. Say, It sure was a lot of writing! "Then I said, Uon't you want Mr. Rogers' cause his would be worth more than mine, you see.

And they said yes, so I went In and told Mr. Rogers and he wrote his name down on their pieces of paper and wrapped the papers around a dollar bill ach, which was awful nice of him. And after I'd passed out the papers, there was one little crippled girl standing In back crying, so I saw she dldnt have any and I told him and he gave her for being everybody sure misses him!" A little girl came out of the house opposite and lower than Jane's and the two exchanged cryptic signals. I began to move toward departure. "You don't have to hurry," said my small hostess, her round face breaking nevertheless into a smile.

"We had an engagement, but it doesn't really matter." Her feet began to edge toward the stairs. Another tiresome grown-up delayed her to talk of beach pictures which were to be made next day. "Sure," agreed Jane, the good child, "IH dolV I'll do everything you say. Yes, the red dress. Yes, the new bathing suit Yes, the No'm, I won't forget But listen.

Llstea If I take a hundred pictures all right, can I have half an hour off to have fun on the pier? It seems such a waste to go to the beach and never have any fun." rpHE msanest little girl in Hollywood is dismayed over her new-found' fame. She is Bonlta Granville, a small trouper from a famous heatrical family who was born in a stage trunk and took her first toddling steps behind the foot-' lights. dont want to be a mean said Bonlta, earnestly. "When I sat in, th6 theatre the night they showed the prevl-w of the picture and saw how everybody hated me, I felt pretty tacj. I dont care about goody-goody kids, but I like characters." When Bonlta, aged 8, was brought to California to recuperate for an Illness, advisers approached her mother.

"Curl the child'a hair, teach her to tap dance, cultivate a Southern accent -or an English one and she's made." She did play one part with long curls, j- a ,1 1 (C I' )ro Pi Edith Fellows may be the "meanest brat on the screen," but she's a delightful little miss in her home I 6 Milii Marcia Mae Jonea began acting when site wss 1 year old. She'a not a meanle on the acreen, just adept at playing the part of a little coward. And she's a marvelous miss at other times jove: Heo WAS! -Tht ted ip routh o. uying, Purcf 'ailing Throi nlttee, irad at it St I it Chic urchai Hollywood. TTKDR years mothers have been con-centra ting on their angelic-looking offspring, curling their hair, faintly rouging baby cheeks, dressing' them in ruffles or brief, exquisitely embroidered frocks, teaching them to danoa all for the hope of Hollywood.

But ever since Shirley Temple, the most adorable and gifted mite who ever stepped before a camera, the cutie to end cutles, took her place at the head of box-office stars, what's the use? No little angel looks like 3 cents next to Shirley. The answer? Why, the answer is. tht Little Meanle. There'a Jane Withers, plump, round, 10 and rather plain, whose check each week la in four figures. There'a Edith Fellowes, also 10, who could be passed by in any crowd as an average child, If she kept her strange blue-green eyes down.

There's Benny Bartlett, small, freckled, carrot-topped kid of 9, who has no claim to beauty. There'a Bonlta Granville, 13, and Mania Mae Jones, 11, qualifying as the two meanest children on earth in a recent picture, neither of them the sort, to pose as models for candy-box covers. And there are more, several more, but this handful is an example. OW, dont get your hopes up about i junior or Betty Jane, because Junior's been expelled from every school he ever attended and Betty Jane has the whole neighborhood terrorized. The Little Meanle of the screen is a little fiend only before the cameras.

OS the screen he or she la polite, biddable, almost too good to be true. "How can you be such a brat in pictures when you're so sweet in private life? I asked Edith, when she bad been torn from an anticipated afternoon of play to talk to me. "Well." said Edith, sagely, sitting like a little lady, feet together and hands' carefully folded, on the disk chair facing mine, "you cant go through life without meeting a few mean kids. I've met my share, I suppose." She cast her 1 mind back over the decade since her birth. I dont really copy any of them when I'm to play a brat, I Just get inside her and feel like a brat then I know what to do.

"It's run playing brats, but I wouldnt have time to be one myself. Vou see, I've got to; make good for my grandmother's sake. When I was 2 weeks old my grandmother took me and she's stuck with me all through my struggles. Now that it looks tike I'm a success at least a little my mother is trying to get me back. But she's not going to, If I can help it My grandmother had the tough going I'd Ilka to give her some of the smooth now.

"I was named for Marilyn Miller. When I was two and a half they took, me to aee her and I went up In my first elevator. She gave me a doll as big as myself and ten pounds of candy, which 1 wasn't allowed to eat I dont remember anything about that visit except a lot of blonde hair and a lovely voice and not being able to have the candy, but it was then that Marilyn advised my grandmother to take me to Hollywood. Bonita Granville brought boos and hisses in one of her pictures she was so mean. And she cried over her own performance when she aaw the preview mmm '''ML Bennie Bartlett aaya he can't be bothered acting like the kids he plays on the screen.

It keeps bim busy trying to be the leader in scholarship in school an English accent and a dance routine that was in "Cavalcade" but the role-called for these things. Bonlta 'sub-' merges her own personality in whatever parts she plays and steps completely out of them the minute she is jff the set-Ever since that film she has carefully" worked out a different girl for uacn characterization. She longs to play In Shakespeare or in something by O'Neill. She wishes; Howard Chandler Christy would want to paint her. 8heH never get'enougtl spaghetti, and one of these days she's going to be a great star.

for Jobs. Grandmother worked, (too. when she could get anything to do and it was all pretty anxious. I'm 10 and I've been in a hundred pictures, but I'm Just gettlngj recognition now." The "recognition" she speaks of in her quaint little grown-up way came from a role she had to fight for. "But that child is much too sweet-tempered to play a brat, complained the director, when she was sent to him.

"Excuse me, I'm an actress and there'a nothing I cant play!" differed Edith, so delighting him that he took a chance and she walked' off with the picture. Edith doesn't rest on' her brattlsh reputation. She speaks and sings in five languages, she's studying grand opera, she plays the piano and the ukulele and begs to be allowed to take lessons on the harp. DENNY BARTLETT confides fully that he can't be bothered act-Ins like the kids he plays on the screen. It takes all his time to keep ahead of his class so no one can say pictures are bad for him.

He has a father, mother and three kid sisters to support Benny's father is- at the Sawtelle Veterans Home. When he's well enough he arranges music for orchestration, but he can work only a few days a month and then must-go to bed again. "That's what war does," says Benny, with the curl of a lip. Benny Is so well behaved that people forget he's only a small boy. He never throws spitballs, puts tacks on chairs or annoys his fellow actors.

He's interested in airplanes and cameras, and spends his spars time with the camera crew or on a set with an airplane. But he never pulls out screws or opens shutters or turns levers. He has tap much responsibility. He's the man of the family. Jane Withers' family had to move from their Hollywood home to one up on a steep hill high above the film city.

This was because the fans of the "brat star" insisted on ringing her doorbell and throwing pebbles at her windows so that they could say they'd seen Jane. Now she's Inaccessible, I like orphans. When I was little I used to go to the orphan asylum in Georgia, where I lived, and brui home an orphan on Sunday for a treat Once In a while I'd visit the orphans and eat -with -them. and. my, it was funl There were lots more girl orphans than boy orphans, so I could see girls weren't as much wanted as boys.

My: mother wanted me, though she prayed I'd be a girl, so, of course, I wa "You cant be as mean in a studio as the parts you play or they'd run you out of the place." said Jane. "You sure got to watch your step in pictures. They've got no time for bad kinds. But I think girls are usually better than boys, anyway. I like girl babies best and girl dogs and girl cats.

What we need is more girls. an faithful and they love you Girl animals, anyway. I bad a tiarket lead ot ach at Paul I A del was principi ings vt I son, purchas The nu hav yean. said to season. At th.

ment of stock yi govemni ter cow: been bo 1 cutter hi The Chicago, I so largo 1 ly at a morning, was blai shortage, 000 head northwes Italy'." Team U. BERLIT Olympic i United SI rough mat in which 1 phia waa player, oldest doll, a dilapidated old rag baby, but she was also partial to a teddy bear. She has a real electric stove where she can cook, a breakfast nook alcove where her "children" can have meals and several doll houses, toy theatres and so on. Everybody knows and likes Jane But when she came to Hollywood at the age of nobody wanted to know her. and it was seven months before her mother could get her inside a studio.

It waa not until she was Just 8 that she got a real opportunity. The director of Shirley Temple's first starring picture had told Jane to "stand by," and she was waiting, in the casting director's office, while her mother bitterly complained -that they had been standing for two years. "Would you like to see my impersonations?" suggested Jane, so politely that the C. D. couldn't refuse.

Two minutes later he was thoroughly enjoying Jane's rendition of Flfl Dorsay's "You're Simply Dellshl" "Does director know she can do these things?" be demanded, and marched back to ahow him. She got the part "Lots of kids like to get autographs, know that? Even In the picture usi- -ness. I like to get some myself. Last time I worked on the same bill as Mr. Will Rogers there was a lot of kids couldn't get We did a benefit up at San Bernardino for the Red Cross or something.

When 1 waa q8 I loo' ed cat named Bubbles but she ran away I dldnt know she was a boy that, OOK, arent those perfectly beeyou tiful flowers? Alice Faye sent happened. THE debut of Marcia Mae Jones was made at the age of 1, when Director James Cruze happened to see her In a shop when he was going slowly dippy trying to find a baby who looked lite Dolores Costello. This one did, so she got the part of Dolores as an infant. She assures me that she wasn't really a brat in the picture, she was Just a little coward. You wouldnt dare be a real brat in a studio, she adds, or you'd never get another chance.

"You've got to bo in earnest," she explains. "But anyway Mr. Wyler. our director, said she'd rather direct kids than grown-ups any day. He said it every day we worked, so he must have meant it." He'd never have said that if they'd been real brats I them to 111.

give you half of them when you go This suggestion was not it developed, a bribe to induce me to go home at once. Jane had a whole roomful of dolls to ahow me first got 200 dolls that are-down at Bollocks' on exhibition," she explained. "People send me dolls dressed like th parts I play, or dolls from other lands, or Just dolls. The rest of my family Is hom today, and I got every one dressed up to see you." Jane's 'favorite turned out to be hat "When I grow up I'm going to have a-cat and dog farm, and they'll be all girl animals, so well hart plenty of babies. I've got four kittens this minute wjint to see She vanished, to reappear with a- box containing an alarmed mother cat and four scraps of fur.

"Their names are Bubbles, Tot and she announced, "and Blackie is their mother. She was an orphan, Blackie was. who lived at the studio, but I got so sorry for her being an orphan that I took her home. "We had a dreadful time, we two. 1 worked extra, and did bits and hunted 'I.