Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-04 | Page 38 | America Almost Lost a Favorite Comedian

AMERICA ALMOST LOST LOSTA I k IA I I A FAVORITE COMEDIAN COMEDIA r I I William Wllliam Collier the CO comedian was nearly smothered into suffocation at Culver Culver Culver Cul Cul- ver City recently recently while working in a Triangle Triangle Triangle Tri Tri- angle subject in which he will be starred He is enacting the part of an inebriate I i in in-a in n a new comedy drama by by d 6 d. Gardner I Sullivan and one of the scenes s requires him to be buried burled beneath a bulky mattress mattress mattress matt- matt I ress on which a large squad of aborigines I leisurely recline The comedian didn't get his head out in time and as a consequence conse onse- quence was held prisoner for three e onse-I onse full minutes So loud Wa was th the confusion of I voices while the camera crank was being beings j turned that the comedians comedian's muffled voice voice was not he heard rd Covered with feathers' feathers 1 I he was finally L JiLs comfortable 1 predicament f and d allowed i a l' l ten-minute ten respite before proceeding with the hazardous work People who have I nearly hearly died in embraces of a farmhouse feather bed are expected to sympathize