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Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...
From Memphis to Birmingham, from the sticks to the Palace Theatre in New York, the Ultima Thule of a trouper in vaudeville. "Stage Mother" portrays the life of ham actors with great ambitions. Kitty Lorraine loses her husband when he drops to the stage from a trapeze; a baby is born; down to Boston to get help from Fred's family. She enters a magnificent mansion, which might be situated on Beacon Street, and meets her mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law; the last mentioned would thrill psychologists who are looking for cases of spinsters with...
Loew's Orpheum-"Emma" with the veteran trouper Marie Dressler...
...year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...