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Bill DesinoTid is the original of Hirshfield’s famous comedy series, “Desperate Desmond,” It all came about thru Bill’s love of adventure
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AV'illiam Des.-i mond, of Tri-. angle-Culver Citv fame, thru ah that s t u d i o ’ palmy and failing days, and now of the Jesse D, Hampton organization of cellule) idic i)lanets, You see, back in the old days, when Bill Desm o n d w a s subsisting on the salary of a leading man in Morosco stock — and the admiring notes of
Desperatk Desmond ! Do you know him ? Tell me how do you picture him to yourselves ? Tall ? thin ? With long, drooping mustachios, always foiling the hero and chasing the girl around the world ?
I thought so.
You are wrong, all wrong. The real, honest-to-goodness Desperate Desmond is of medium height, of wellfilled muscular development, with a laugh in his dimples and a laugh in his eyes — blue, fringed with brown. And his voice has the ring of old Ireland in it ; the cheer, enthusiasm, imagination and blarney of the old country. His
ambition was to make a tour of the world. All his as.sociates ; actors, writers, artists, who lived out there in California, were quite used to Bill’s monolog on “When I become wealthy T am going to travel all over the world,’’
A short time later Billy Desmond received a flattering offer to go to Australia and head a repertoire stock company in .'Sydney. Strangely enough, he was not especially jubilant over the idea, but as the engagement was for only six months and would give him a chance to take at least part of that world journey of his. Bill accepted, and the impending voyage was announced.
Then it was that Hirshfield of The Los Angeles Examiner drew the first of the series of cartoons known as "Desperate Desmond.” He showed our friend Bill trailing all sorts of adventures in various countries, only he pictured him as the mustachioed villain and not as the clean-lipped hero. >
The real Desmond isn’t de.sperate at all — that is, he wasn’t when I had
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