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Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy use their own names for the characters whom they impersonate in their pictures. Funny man Laurel was understudy to Charlie Chaplin when they both belonged to Fred Carno's London comedy company. When Mack Sennett saw Charlie Chaplin and Chaplin left the company to go into cinema, Laurel considered him "a fool for leaving." In 1917, playing a vaudeville engagement in Los Angeles, Stanley Laurel met Chaplin again, was persuaded to try a movie contract himself...
...thought he might have caused the death of Cinemactress Rappe by attacking her, perhaps with a beer bottle, no cinema producers dared antagonize their audiences by hiring Funnyman Arbuckle. Funnyman Arbuckle tried a vaudeville tour, a Hollywood nightclub. When the nightclub failed, he got a job writing "gags" for Mack Sennett, has more recently, as "William Goodrich," been an assistant director for Educational Film Exchanges...
Like Marion Davies and Bebe Daniels. Gloria Swanson is one of those seasoned cinema wheel-horses who, though they pass through periods of taking themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something...
...Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines) 391 215 Murray Corp. (motor bodies) 295 204 D National Candy 313 112 Newport Co. (chemicals) 426 240 Patino Mines (tin) 150 D 163 D Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt 778 3 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron 630 656 Poor & Co. (railroad equipment) 629 211 Shell Union...
...relationships between his rather theoretical work at Harvard, the life which he led before he came here, and the life which he will lead after he graduates, and to select a career in which he may be successful and content. In order to do that somewhat effectively, James Mack Swigert '30. Donald Freeman Brown '30, and I, have collected a wealth of information about what men do, how they do it, and how they reached the positions in which they do it. We have also a small, well-selected library of books about a great variety of occupations. In addition...