No typewriter is safe from use with Skippy.
Young tow-headed Jackie Cooper, who created the Percy Crosby role in "Skippy" and now carries on as the beloved rogue with Robert Coogan in Percy Crosby's "Sooky," finds his greatest joy in pecking away at a typewriter.
Offer him a box of candy and a typewriter and he'll compromise in type Skippy fashion by taking both, which shows he is a typical boy.
It isn't just a mechanical joy that Jackie derives from typewriters; he loves to writer stories on them. At home, he has a machine of his own and spends hours at it. When he invades any office, he immediately darts for the typewriter, if one is present. Interviewers learned early not to try to chat with the lad in a room where such a machine is located.
His stories are full of imagination - and action.
Mostly, they concern cowboys and policemen after criminals.
With juvenile unconcern about reasons why, he often makes quick cuts to an end in his stories. For example, his latest story finds two youths flat broke. They are fleeing from their enemies in a taxi-cab (how they pay for the ride doesn't concern Jackie). They decide they must get out of Chicago, where the story takes place. So they instruct the driver to speed for the railroad station where they purchase two tickets to Kansas City.
If you ask Jackie how they got the money to buy those tickets, he looks at you in a hurt fashion as though you are making important a triviality just to be technical.
Some day, Jackie tells you, he will be a writer, and the strange part of the matter is that you believe him. It isn't hard to believe most anything of such a chap as Skippy and Jackie is Skippy.