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...observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really a sly and wicked midget. It was unpleasant to imagine the shrill, false pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes...
...Lon Chaney's mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
...ventriloquist in vaudeville, he capitalizes this ability in The Unholy Three. He ascertained he could best imitate a female voice not in falsetto but by speaking quietly and enunciating carefully. Last of the great stars to make a talkie (except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would limit his disguises, make it impossible for him to wear part of his make-up in his mouth Last week Chaney was visiting a Manhattan hospital twice daily for throat treatment...
Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, onetime Miracle nun, driving from Bognor to Lon- don, smashed into another car, was taken to a hospital suffering cut knees, shock...
...number of years back while holding down my first job as a ship's officer, on a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...