First 'steps' on skates by new child film actress. Many people have painful memories of their first acquaintances with roller skates. Perhaps they never realised how amusing their earliest efforts appeared to bystanders!. These pictures were made when little Janet Chapman, new six-year-old film actress, now appearing in Warner Brothers 'Three Girls on Broadway' in Hollywood, went through the same exciting ordeal. The skates were given to her by John Farrow, the film director. Janet's sturdy little legs did the rest!. Photo shows, Janet makes another rapid descent, but she can afford to laugh this time because some sympathetic individual has tossed out a pillow, which gives her a gentle reception.