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The December 1942, issue of "Current Biography" furnisned the following information concerning James Cagney: He was born in New York City on July 17, 1904, the scn of James Cagney and Czrolyn Nelson Cagney. His father owned a saloon at 2th ftreet and Avenue D, a neighborhood that was Known to policemen es the gorilla jungle Fe went to grammer school cnd efter being grzduated ed Stuyvesant igh Schocl. During the next four years he had the following jors: Office boy for the "New Yor Sun", ¢ wranrer at Wanaemakers, page boy at the "Friars" in ork 7 weoster Branch of the New wew York City and custcdian of the Yorsx Yublie Library. sesred Columbia Universi -s Tore eave ne lLooltd pround 2 mG cre e. He became & cherus & i y i : ', He continued as a chorus toy for 32 weelss. When the show closed he went into a vauceville sietch playing a nart in Jewish disleet. During the next seven years he toured all of the tanx towns in the Hast. He returned to the legitimate stzege in 1925, but a short time later went back to vaudeville. In 1929 ne and Joan Elondell went with Warner Brothers. Cecasionally accused of Communist activities because of a tendency to help those more unfortunate than himself, Jimcy squelched these rumors thoroughly and officially when he appeared before tne Dies Comittee in 1940. ‘touring in Massachusetts when the charges of subversive activity came up Jimmy «nen to Washington to defend himself. The charges seemec to be vrimarily the result of his heving dcneted an ambulance to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, and his frequent contributions to the relief of starving cotton pickers when they were trixing. Ne explained it all by his impulsiveness in responding to renuests for aid. Dies cleared him with the ennouncenent that in his osinion Mr. Cagney was not and never he sympathetic with the Communist movement but had let nis name be used by Communist front organizations. sob, ‘Seree fe ee nen Wr pine nett at