JACKIE’S DIARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 29, 27 April 1927, Page 15

JACKIE’S DIARY

A CREDITABLE WORK Readers of Mark Twain will remember what the great humorist said about writing diaries. “It takes only a little vanity to begin a diary, but a whole lot of moral courage and character to keep it up.” Jackie Coogan began one, not inspired by the usual vanity, but by the promptings of his father, who persuaded his young son that a diary of each picture would prove in after years interesting reading for himself and family. So Jackie kept a diary on “Johnnie Get Your Plair Cut,” and did not miss a day. Credit for this persistence, however, isn’t to be given entirely to the small boy genius of the screen who frequently felt that "to-morow would do.” Once at the job, however. Jackie brought to it the determination that is characteristic of him, and the result is, according to his father, “an interesting narrative of a motion picture in the making.” Prominent in Jackie’s diary and picture are Maurice Costello, once the prime favourite of the movies; Jim Corrigan, a veteran of stage and screen; Mattie Witting, declared by all Hollywood as the most ideal screen mother; Pat Hartigan, as excellent a villain as ever put on make-up; and Bobby Boyle, famous jockey.