Word: roaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid...
Died. Dr. John Roach Straton, 54, fundamentalist Baptist preacher; in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y.; of a heart attack...
...said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...
...After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month in Hal Roach comedies, then as Douglas Fair-banks's leading lady in The Gaucho. Brunette, she is five feet high, weighs 105 pounds, can play the ukelele, likes dancing best...