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THE HONG
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 1927.
WITH THE STARS AT SEVEN DEAD IN FIRE.
HOLLYWOOD.
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD'IN
WILD WEST PLOTS.
MOTHER AND FAMILY PERISH.
TRAPPED OVER SHOP.
Londonderry, Sept. 16. Seven persons-two women and GEORGE JESSEL AMBITIOUS. ve children-were burned to death in a fire in Londonerry this evening. The dead are:
Hollywood One of the hopeful wrinkles of the movie business is being built around an ambition to take "Buzz" Barton, a thirteen- year-old freckle-faced youngster, and create a boy Tom Mix or Bill Hart.
The lad comes from Missouri, which is a good sign, and he can ride horseback. He has been around the movies a bit, doubling for stars in childhood roles where bits of horsemanship were
re-
Mrs. Annie Cowley, the wife of an
ox-soldier, and her children: Edward, aged-16, Veronica, aged 7, James, aged 4,
Isabella, aged 12 months. Cowley's married daughter). Mrs. Nellie McCourt, aged 20 (Mrs. Nellie McCourt, aged 10 months (Mrs McCourt's baby).
All the bodies were found in a bedroom.
quired, and he has completed drapery shop of Mr.
The outbreak took place in the Alexander
somo
seven westerns with Jack Ferrin. Now he has been signed Byrne, of Butcher-street-in the up by FBO to star in a series heart of the busiest part of the city. of westerns, the first of which The family occupied the top storey will be started in the near future, over the shop.
how
The press agent story of
People passing saw flames sud- "Buzz" got his nickname, you denly burst out of the second-floor can take or leave as you please, windows of the building. Within Anyway, the official boy biog-a few seconds of the first shoot of rapher says that when "Buzz" flame it could, be seen that the floor was passing through Arizona with was a blazing furnace. his family, a cowboy with a per-
Almost at once, before the people verted sense of humor bet the lad could spring forward to rush to the he couldn't stick on an unbroken building, they saw a young woman mustang, fresh from the range. with a tiny baby in her arms at a The kid got on, and struck. As window in the flat above. Flames le came back, someone made the were then creeping upwards from a remark, "Here comes young Bar-window below. ton, buzzin, right along." and the The fire, which is believed to Buzz part struck.
have started on the middle floor at Buzz is now in the seventh the staircase, spread very rapidly grade in school, but his education and soon the staircase was practi- isn't being confined to four walls.cally destroyed preventing the trap- He tutors on the side to cowped people from making their punchers, riding masters, trick escape. rope twisters, and two-gun experts, the big idea being to make a Frank horror-stricken people had gather- Merriwell of the west of the ed in the street. An eye-witness youngster.
stated that, despite the great clouds of smoke and flame, they could oc- casionally ace figures at the window. back by the smoke and flumes when The fire brigade were beaten of nine. Since then he has filled making desperate effort to every kind of a job connected with the blazing building....
enter the stage. And because of hist success, the movies have lured him sheets and blankets were held out In a last efort to save the people westward with their ever ready below the window in the hope that. money hays.
they would jump into them.
George Jessel's Hopes. George Jessel started out selling papers at the stage door at the age
Jessel might be cited as an ex- ample of a man who has risen, to immediate cinema stardom, for he started as a star. He was never an extra.
Meanwhile, a huge, crowd a
adjoining house, said:
Mr. John Carton, who lives in an
I saw one woman at the window when she broke with her hands.
He started out on the stage at heard her cry out, "Oh, save me the age of nine because his father and my children."
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where the bodies were they found It is interesting to hear Jessel's Mrs. Cowley crouched at views on the vitaphone the inven-window with an Infant in each arm. tion which really gave him MEE CHEUNG.
his Mrs. McCourt was lying across the start in pictures.
bed and the three other children "I believe the vitaphone has were huddled together on the floor. Studio, Ice House St.
Branch 7, Beaconsfied Arcade, about had its run," he declares. Another of Mrs.
"It is so make-believe. It is im- children, a little girl named Lily, Cowley's possible to make the public he-was out on an errand when the fire lieve anything is real when they occurred and returned to find her see the image on the screen and home in flames. She was handed hear the voice coming from some over to friends.
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other part of the theatre. The Mr. Cowley lost a leg in the secret of success in the motion war and is at present in hospital picture industry has, been that the in Belfast..
public believes what it sees on the
vercen. The vitaphone will in time
dispel such a belief."
Beebe, one of our young actresgeg
Jessel is now rushing work on who has bright prospects ahead "Ginsberg the Great," his second
Ji
feature picture, so that he can to Lolita Lee... immediately wonder what has happened get back to New York for a win-after Barbara LaMarr's death she ter stage engagement. The story was touted as the girl who would is supposed to have been "carry on" for "the popular written around Georgic and tually comes pretty close to telling ward of now
but she seldom jy
actress
uc-
of his early day struggles when There's Francis, X. Bushman, he was just a nobody..
"In about five years from now vacation..
just back from a long sea-going
I am going to quit acting-if the wu do next.
wonder Wilat le public doesn't make
it's surprising me stop be-now. some of our cinema playera fore," he says. "Then I am go can keep going indehontely while ing to produce plays and movies others are up for a few years and the way I want to. Perhaps I will chen act in. one of my own pictures Jack Muthall and his wite going
pass on to oblivion and make it right. I don't like into the Montmartre,. this idea of hurrying through a tells me that his tau mail is increas- picture as fast as possible, aling by leaps and bounds these days. though I know it must be done in Оп the Universal' lot a large studio.
"[ want to take eight days on one gag if necessary in- or ten stead of doing four gags every day."
A Miscellany.
. Jack
Laura Larlante talking to Reginald they used to be co-starred...Hoot enny about the olden days when
Gibson riding a new horse lovely Barbara Kept and Mary
hubin going into the cate Mary will soon be leaving for the Here and there about the celluloid United Artista lot to work in D. W. hamlet: Lon Chaney without any Griffith's next production make-up and he really isn't she has almost died, cinematically hard to look at despite the horrible speaking, in the last year. characters he sometimes depicts for Charley Farrell went home a few the movie cameras....West Holly-days ago. But that trip buck to wood, which is soon to become plassachusetts was more than just a new studio center. ..
Mack vacation. When Charley lett Sennett started the ball rolling by home to come to Hollywood three announcing he will build a studio years ago he was all but disowned there... then several others by his family, who wanted to see fell in line
him make something of himself. Vera Steadman without any for a while the cinema road was stockings John Gilbert talk-rough and he almost gave up. ing to a Beverly Hills cop. Then came a featured role in "Old he is on pretty good terms with the fronsides.", His parents, believing uniformed boys out there nowa-their boy had made good, sent him days..
Helen Ferguson com- the money for his fare home, ing out of Henri's
wonder Charley sent it back-he wanted to where she has been hiding out ..
do something bigger. He did, in the last time I saw her was in Las "7th Heaven." So now he has gone Vegas, New Mexico, where she home for a brief visit.
left an eastbound movie special; A short time ago, I quoted Con-
to return to Hollywood,
•
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