Word: roache
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sons of the Desert when they stoop to pick it up. This trick he considers a "darb." In Sons of the Desert, Charley Chase makes his first appearance in a full length picture. His rôle shows him to less advantage than the series of two-reel Hal Roach comedies which, since 1930, have made him one of Hollywood's most famed funnymen. Charley Chase's value, like that of most cinema comedians, is his appearance. He is a pale, clerical, common place individual whose manners should match his unobtrusive looks. Instead, he is equipped with preposterous...
Charley Chase has been in the cinema since 1912, when he made his first picture for Universal. He was $5-per-day extra for Keystone, before he became a Keystone director, an actor for Hal Roach in 1925. As officious offscreen as on, Chase writes and directs his own two-reel comedies. He planned and helped build his own bungalow in Hollywood. His hair, which photographs black, is as grey as Charlie Chaplin's. He dresses foppishly, plays seven musical instruments, currently receives more fan mail than any other comedian in cinema...
...omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought in $8,400 in cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor...
Sued, Gerhard Melvin Dahl, 57, chairman of New York's B. M. T. (subway); by Marion Roach. Atlanta divorcee: for $100,000, charging that he had publicly beaten, kicked, stripped her in his Smithtown. L. I. home and at a nearby inn; in Manhattan...
...questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric pull-switch which Labor Inspector John Roach found in the ruins of the plant. New Jersey's labor laws forbid such switches near inflammable materials...