At Harvard University, where he’s a freshman, James MacArthur is just one of many -- an undergraduate who jumps at the command of an upperclassman. Only a few of Jamie’s classmates are aware that he’s the son of Helen Hayes and the late playwright Charles MacArthur. Only in recent weeks, since the movie Young Stranger opened in Cambridge, have a few students linked the young star of the film with the sturdy, freckled-faced frosh they see on the campus.

A regular guy, friendly and modest, Jamie isn’t at all like the boy he played first on video under the Climax title Deal A Blow. In that, his first starring role, which RKO has made into a film, Jamie portrays a problem youngster -- something he’s never been.