Carl Laemmle Jr. — The Luckiest Boy in the World (1919) 🇬🇧

Rides with cow-boys — eats ice-cream with beautiful stars — plays with lions — and spars with Jim Corbett.

A few years back, despite the convictions of mothers that their young sons were destined to become Cabinet Ministers or judges, the youngsters aspired to be policemen, soldiers, sailors, or circus performers. With the popularity and fabulous salaries of screen stars the modem boy, as a rule, pictures himself as a “cinema star,” and can be seen walking like Charlie Chaplin on the way to school, or demonstrating a Harry Carey Wild West pose for the benefit of awed young misses.

What the average youngster would do if left alone in a motion picture studio can only be imagined; but what one particular boy, eleven years old, who has access to any part of the largest cinema studios of the world, actually does, when he has the right to do what he will in the studios, is interesting.

Thrilling Moments

Recently Carl Laemmle, president of the Universal Film Co., took his son to Universal City with him for a two months’ visit. Having numerous business details to attend to, Mr. Laemmle allowed his son, Julius [Carl Laemmle Jr.], to make his way around the studios unescorted. Julius has arrived at the age when most boys begin to realise the wonders of the world, and when Mr. Laemmle gave him the privilege of going round alone, nothing was more appreciated. Julius first visited the Julian studio and saw Monroe Salisbury acting in an Italian play. He found this interesting, but when the big star and his company shifted to another location, where a band of one hundred cowboys galloped back and forth before the camera, his interest doubled. Later he saw Marie Walcamp jump from a falling oil well shaft into a window of a building near by. This was a thriller.

A Real Playground

Another day Curley Stecher let him pat one of the lions on the nose and hold a cub lion in his lap. He picked up considerable courage when a photographer later showed him a picture of himself holding the little beast. Priscilla Dean took him for a ride through the mountains one afternoon, and when they stopped at a mountain inn ho bought Miss Dean an ice-cream. It wasn’t everybody that could monopolise Priscilla Dean’s time as he was doing.

Boxing with a Champion

One day some Japanese officials visited the studio, and one, a baron, gave him a real Japanese silk dressing-gown. Surely the lad was having the time of his life. After all of the studios had been visited and the little fellow had been entertained by most of the stars and had received numerous autographed pictures and other presents, James J. Corbett gave the youngster his first lessons in boxing. Of all his activities at Universal City, nothing pleased Julius Laemmle so much as his daily lesson with Corbett. As young boys were scarce around the studio, Corbett himself acted as the younger Laemmle’s sparring partner, and with gloves as big as his head, Julius would shift, counter, jab and upper-cut Corbett to his heart’s content. When the youngster saw Corbett in a fight before the camera defeat a dozen opponents, his little chest swelled with pride. Here he was boxing with a champion, and giving him the worst of it, too.

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James J. Corbett, ex-champion heavy-weight boxer, gives Julius Laemmle a lesson.

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As You Were

by Alice Delysia

You ask me how you can look as young and as pretty now that you are thirty-five, as you did when you were twenty. Well, chère amie, it is quite simple, and it will not be expensive. You will not need to go to a great Beauty Specialist, who will charge you many hundred guineas, but just to use a few simple things every day and perhaps every night.

Your complexion is not good, but that is because the skin is the old dead skin you have had all these years. Get rid of it and give the fresh young skin beneath it a chance to show itself, and make you look as you were.”

Get two ounces of mercolised wax from any chemist, and smear a little carefully over your face and throat every night. Do not trouble to nib it in as you would have to do with other creams. Simply smear it on the skin and the wax will do the rest.

Gradually this wax will peel off all the old dead skin, and you will be astonished and charmed with the beauty and freshness of the new complexion, which is waiting to show itself.

Don’t Use Powder

Then throw away your powder-puff. Powder clogs the pores of the skin, so that it cannot breathe properly, and nothing can live and be healthy if it. cannot breathe freely. You know that, don’t you? Yet you powder your face and prevent the skin from having a chance to breathe. Never use powder. Instead get an ounce of cleminite and mix it with four ounces of hot water, bottle it, and, with a pad of cotton-wool, apply it to your face and neck. It will give the skin a soft velvety bloom which will not rub off. Also it will last all day or all the evening, even in a warm ballroom.

A Touch of Colour

A little colour in the cheeks is very becoming. Get some colliandum at any chemist’s and use this instead of rouge. It is quite harmless to the skin and gives a pretty flush to the cheeks, like the tint of a wild rose.

Wavy Hair

Your hair, too, wants attention if you wish to look as pretty “as you were.” Four ounces of stallax will last you for twenty shampoos, and once a week shampoo your hair with a dessertspoonful of the granules dissolved in a pint of hot water. Don’t rinse the hair, it is not necessary, simply dry it in the usual way. Stallax, used regularly, will make your tresses soft and silky and give them a natural wave.

Then to stimulate the growth and increase the vitality of your hair, apply a lotion made by mixing an ounce of boranium with four ounces of bay rum. Rub this well into the roots every night, and in a few weeks your hair will be thick and luxuriant, and you will look, if you follow all my advice, as young and as pretty “as you were” — shall I say — at twenty.

Pilenta Soap for the Complexion

1/– All chemist’s. [Advt.]

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, June 1919