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HAROLD LLOYD
A Fire, An Astrologer, And Some Horned-
Rimmed Glasses Made Him The
Richest Actor In The World
My first sight of Harold Lloyd
was a distinct shock. I should
never have known him off the
screen, but he says, for that mat
ter, no one does. For example, on
one occasion, he was at a party
with a friend who wears glasses.
(Lloyd himself never wears them
off the screen.) This friend didn't
resemble him at all; but every
body thought that the chap in the
hom-rimmed glasses must be
Harold Lloyd.
One day as he was drifting
home from school In Omaha, Ne
braska, he came across an astrol
oger standing on a street corner
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surrounded by colored charts.
This astrologer claimed he could
read your fortune by the stars.
Little Harold listened, pop-eyed
with excitement. Suddenly a fire
engine dashed by, and the other
boys ran after It. But he didn't.
He kept listening to the astrolo
ger. That was a strange thing for
a boy to do and one of the men
in the crowd noticed It.
The fellow that noticed It was
John Lane Connor, the leading
man In the Burwood Stock Com
pany of Omaha. He walked over
to Lloyd, got acquainted with him
and asked him if he knew of some
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nice place where an actor could
get board and room . . . Did he?
. . . Harold leaped at the chance?
Hal-old's mother was a dress
maker and his father sold sewing
machines. One day his father got
smashed up in an automobile ac
cident and hurt his back, and the
insurance company paid him $3.-
500. That was a fortune, so he de
cided to pack up and leave the
middle west and try his luck
somewhere else.
Finally Harold's father said:
"Let's flip a con. If it's heads,
we'll go to California. If it's tails,
we'll go to New York."
But heads came up. so the fam
ily moved to San Diego, and Har
old did odd jobs about the theatre
there. Day after day, he called at
the casting offices; and day after
day, he was turned away. He was
desperate. He 1 must get by that
doorman. He noticed that at noon
all the actors came out of the'
Universal lot and went across the
road to a lunch counter, and he
also noticed the doorman didn't
pay any attention to them when
they came back with their grease
paint on. So the next day, Harold
Lloyd hid behind a bill-board at
noon, put on some make-up hhn
self and slipped by-the doorman
in the crowd.
There was an actor by the name
of Hal Roach who was playing
small bits on this lot. He told
Lloyd one day that his aunt had
died and left him a little money
so he was going to make pictures
himself, comedies, and wanted
Harold to join him.
One day he picked up an idea
that was worth a fortune to him
—picked it up quite by accident.
He was tired, so he drifted into a
theatre and saw an actor with a
straw hat and a pair of horn
rimmed glasses playing the part
of a preacher. This actor wasn't
trying to be funny; but he was
really a scream. Lloyd decided
then and there to make horn
rimmed glasses his trade mark
and to play the part that has
since made him famous.
The funniest thing I know
about Harold Lloyd is that he
himself didn't know he was funny
until he was twenty years old.
Before that, he used to go around
reciting Shakespeare. And when
he first started making pictures,
the directors told him he wasn't
a comedian and never could be a
comedian and they advised him
to get out of pictures and make
his living at something else. But
he kept right on—and now he is
the richest actor in all the world.
In fact, he is the richest actor
who ever lived.
Copyright, 1938
SWAN CREEK .
Rev. N. T. Jarvis of Roaring
River, filled his regular appoint
ment at Swan Creek Baptist
church Saturday afternoon. Rev.
D. C. Swiam of Winston-Salem,
was in charge of the Sunday
morning service. There were 164
present for Sunday school Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Couch, R.
R. Swaim and daughter, Evelyn j
Swaim, spent last Saturday in 1
North Wilkesboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vestal, Miss
Pearl Mathls. Peimster Morrison'
and Phillip and Alton Vestal j
spent Sunday in Greensboro, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Ves
tal.
Misses Myrtle and Vesta Mathis
visited their sister, Mrs. Coy Cal
loway, and Mr. Calloway, of Cy
cle, Saturday.
Mrs. Olenn Swaim and children
of Ronda, were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Myers Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Martin of
Elkin, were the overnight guests
of Mrs. Martin's mother, Mrs. R.
G. Myers, Saturday.
Rev. D. C. Swaim of Winston-
Salem and Miss DeEtte Swaim
visited Mr. and Mrs. Rob Cheek
at Mountain Grove Sunday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Lizzie Stokes of Cycle, and
Mrs. Carrie Swaim of Elkin, vis
ited their brother, H. C. Cook,
Sunday.
Rev. N. T. Jarvis of Roaring
River, was the dinner guest Sun
day of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Pardue.
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Roser.
Office Boy: Mr. Roser is en
gaged.
Dinah: Go 'long, boy. Ah don't
want to marry him. Tell him his
wash lady wants huh money.
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