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Show IROTISTR BEVERLY HILLS. Weil all I know 13 just what 1 read in the papers, or what I run into here aad there. Been do-I do-I , S ,50Y ing a little ( prowling around t. ' '-j-aC here lately, kind jft ?9 of broke out so- daily. Mr. Hal K y, Roach an old ;., I , employer (dont il i,''OJ'N that mean the t '-' V I guy that hires : 7ou?Inever coul(1 6et those ; -'w v L-tw0 words fe-.-'-Hi ?M straight, em-L.r,--.j,i-.? pioyer, and employee) em-ployee) well whichever one it is that does the work, why 1 was hiiu. Roach dug up the money, and I expect ex-pect sometimes when I hadent earned it. (Maybe all the time.) Mr Roach is the man that makes the very fine comedies and in the early days he was the producer of Harold Lloyd. Harold was there the other night. Our business or anybc-dys business dont stable a better or finer fellow than Harold Lloyd. Everybody likes him. He is a grand young fellow fel-low that has not gone "anything" He is still just Lloyd. He and Hal have always remained great friends. There is a great deal in common, for Hal is another that has not bsen led haywire by the applause. It was the 20th anniversary of his entry en-try into pictures. 1 think he entered en-tered pictures au a cowboy, not because be-cause he was one, but he had a Bull Durham tobacco sack hanging out of his shirt pocket, so the casting director naturally thought that constituted con-stituted a cowboy. In those days if you played in pictures at all you played a cowboy, for that is all there was to em, a cowboy running down a hill and having a fight at the bottom. bot-tom. Hal at tha time couldent ride a horse, especially down hill. He has since learned, and plays an excellent game of polo, but in those days he must have played the rancher, whose daughter was stolen, and he stayed at home and pointed out which way they went. You remember there was always one fellow left just to point. Lloyd I think played characters, he had got a hold of a beard somewhere, some-where, perhaps workef in a barber shop, but anyhow 1 have seen old pictures of Harold when he had on a beard. I can figure how he got the beard, but I cant dope out where he got the mucilage, for I think there was times in ihose days when be would have to eat the mucilage. As Lloyd and Roach got to producing their own, they mostly used policemen police-men for characters. They dident use horses, for a horse got more than an actor in those days, and you had to feed a horse, but a man playing the policeman would just eat the buttons but-tons off his uniform. Twenty years of furnishing the entire world with laughs is not a bad epitaph on any-bodys any-bodys tombstone. It was a grand party, the biggest thing I ever saw. It would take me three columns to tell you. who all was there. The list reads like one of those "Whos delinquent in their income in-come tax." Out by one of the orchestras. or-chestras. 1 run onto Groucho Marx. I say one of the orchestras, for there was orchestras for you to get out of your car by, another for you to check your hat by, and another one to dance by. Why every couple had their own orchestra. Well this one 1 am talking about was Hawaiian and was playing "The Last Roundup." Round-up." Groucho suggested that a cowboy cow-boy tenor voice would be just about what was lacking in this whole musical set up, so 1 joined in. Now here is a funny thing about those Marxes, Groucho can play as good ug. fi ) 9 on the guitar as 1 L '. ' Harpo can on jC'-v the harp, or iTTV Chico on the pi- ano. He can play JySSS but never does. Js aS He is really what Z&ffir'Q . call an ideal ,'re'lTKr!t nusician. He SaiKj can play but TrClSsI dont. In New t V-r Y-jrk when I was playing with ----w Miss Dorothy Stone in "Three Cheers" he even tried to teach me to play the guitar. He would come over to my dressing room before our two shows started, and he would play, and we would sing these old songs, and so this thing was really nothing new we was pulling, but it was new to the gang. "The Last Roundup," instead of us dying off, why that just give us encouragement, encourage-ment, and for a half hour we totally ruined (musically) Mr Roaches party. Course lots of folks joined us, to try and drown us out, but not us. The next night Mrs Rogers and 1 had dinner over at Grouchos and we took up right where we had left off, only he played the piano that night. I love to sing old songs, and any time anybody will start one I am the loudest, and if they wont start em, I will myseif. But we did have a good time at Hals party, and I believe everybody did and when he is in pictures forty years, I am going to go to another one for him. Roach says he will hire Groucho and ine the next time. But the songs we sing now, will never become old songs. No one wi'i ever remember em that long. tP.-'i McNa-sh: Syndicate, Inc. |