Harry Carey Remembers Director As Boy

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14

Harry Carey Remembers Director As Boy

TTARRY CAREY, veteran of 20 years’ stardom on the screen, has one of the most retentive minds and accurate memories of any player in Hollywood. How well he remembers dates and faces was demonstrated when he returned to the Universal studios for the first time in 12 years to enact a leading role in the film “Code of the Streets.”

Arriving on the set, Carey was greeted by the director, Harold Young. “Hello,” said the star, “I remember you. The last time I was on this lot you were working here as a mailroom boy. Now I come back to find that you’re my boss.” When Young was about 19 years old he worked in the mailroom at Universal before getting his first job in the studio cutting-room. A few years later Young went to England and was elevated to directorship. He scored such a hit with his first important picture, “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” made in London with Leslie Howard as the star, that he has been in demand as a director ever since. Young is under long-term contract at Universal, where he recently directed “The Storm,” and “Newsboys’ Home,” before starting work on “Code of the Streets.”