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HAROLD LLOYD (Paramount Player)
Harold Lloyd was born in Buchard, Nebraska, a town of 500 citizens. As long as he c-rn remember he wanted to be an actor and as a bey set that as his goal.
Lloyd's professional acting debut was made in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He was doing serious roles then! It was at Beatrice, Nebraska that a stock company looking about for home talent to fill in minor roles picked young Harold for the part of Fleance, Ban4uo's son. Harold only had to cry "Help! Help!" but stage fright just about got tne best of him.
About this time he formed a friendship with John Lane Connor, leading man with the Burwood Stoc«c Company, *ho had come, with his troupe, to Omaha where t:ie Lloyds had moved. Connor taught Harold a great deal about makeup, ana later w -is to tace him under his wing as a sort of protegee.
In 1907, with the Burwood Company in Omaha, Harold played a nice role in "Tess of the L'Ubervilles." He had other small parts then the season closed. Unf ortun ttely a little while later, Harold! s father was injured by a w igon . He collected $6,000 though and with it decided to go to San Diego, California.
Harold helped his father run a pool hall and at the same time he assisted Connor, wno w.s not situated in San Diego, with his dramatic school. One day the Edison Company applied at the dramitic school for talent to fill extra parts. Harold made up as an Indian and thus made his debut before the damera.
The stock company season closed and Harold had to resort to the movie* for extra vyork. He met and became fast friends with Hal Roach and rne day Roach astonished him with the disclosure that he was going to produce onereel comedies. The first man he hired was Harold Lloyd.
At first the going was hard but finally Roach caught on but Lloyd quit when he discovered another player was getting more money than he was. He