Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

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Corbett, Will Cressy, Fred Niblo, J. K. Etnmett, Jack Norworth, Flo Irwin, Tom Sharkey, Lew Qockstader, Tony Pastor, (liarles K. Harris, Robert Milliard, George Monroe, Cheridah Simpson, Banks Winter and hundreds of others, many of them long since dead and others who have risen to still greater fame on the stage and screen and various walks of life. The late Lew Dockstader made one of the first entries in Buster's book, naming the place of the future screen star's debut in the following rhyme : "Buster, you're a dandy; Buster, you're a brick; Buster, you can make all juveniles look sick; Some day you'll be a great one, the captain of the crew, But dont forget old Wilmington, the place of your debut." Fred Niblo first met young Keaton on Christmas Day, 1904. By this time nineyear-old Buster, as a member of the Three Keatons, was famous thruout the vaudeville circuits. The director of "Ben-Hur" then was with the variety team of Newell and Niblo. Niblo recorded in the youthful funmaker's album : "Some day, Buster, you will be one of our greatest comedians. I predict a great future for you." During 1904 Elsie Janis made this entry : "There's a dear little man we know quite well, Who around our hearts has cast a spell: If he made a mistake you never could tell, For he's a mimic, comedian and acrobat as well." Another generation will recall "Bill Bailey"' as one of the song hits of 1903. The vaudeville team of Girard and Gardner wrote the following in Buster's book on February 27 of that year, while the Three Keatons were playing in Detroit : "The audience was cold And we worked twice daily, I > i c 1 all we knew, including 'Bill Bailey'; But it was easy for Buster, And the house laughed gaily At the smart little man With the strut of Dan Daly." Old John L. Predicts (~)li> John L. Sullivan wrote in gigantic letters in Buster's album : "Little Buster, you may be a big Buster some day. May 21, 1903." Jim Corbett predicted, in the parlance of the ring : "Buster, you're a knock-out." Tom Sharkey waxed philosophical and made this entry : "To my little? friend. Buster, from bis old friend, Tom Sharkey. And after all, life is but one sweet dream. Let us be blithe and gay, for tomorrow is another' day. Yours truly, Thomas J. Good boy!" Bert Howard didn't know anything about motion pictures when he wrote, back in 1903, at Indianapolis: "Buster, you will be America's foremost comedian. Bead this book forty years from now and see if I am not right." Mclntyre and Heath were responsible for the following r "Buster, you are the biggest of them all, tho not in size. But for wit you get the prize." And Digby Bell wrote: "Be good, Buster, and you'll be eccentric." At that, Buster ought to be good, in more than one sense. He was born in a church, on November 4, 1895. The town in which he made his worldly debut isn't even on the map today. A cyclone put it in the missing column, and they've never taken the trouble to rebuild it. Born in a Cyclone HThf. Pickway, Kansas, "that was," was forty miles north of the Oklahoma line, west of Coffeyville, and not far from Cherryvale. Father and Mother Keaton, Joe and Myra, and Harry Houdini, now the famous magician and escape artist, were touring the country with a tent show. On the Saturday night before Buster was born, a wind-storm blew down the tent. While Keaton, Houdini and a few townspeople were trying to get the show house up again, a cyclone hit the community. That was the last anyone ever saw of the tent. The only clergyman in the village, a Catholic priest, heard of the visitors' plight and of the expected visit of the stork. He volunteered to go for a doctor, and suggested that Joe Keaton bring his wife to the little home next door to the tiny church. Keaton and Houdini started for the priest's house with Mrs. Keaton at one o'clock Sunday morning. In the darkness they mistook the church for the house, and Mrs. Keaton was taken into the sacristy. There the priest and the doctor found the troupers, and there Buster Keaton was brought into the world. Buster — altho his name was then Joseph Francis — became a trouper that day and remained one until he went into pictures twenty-one years later. One day when he was about six months old, the lusty youngster demonstrated his tumbling proclivities by falling all the way down-stairs. The mishap failed to injure him, and Houdini exclaimed : "What a Buster !" And that's why the bill-boards today do not read "Joseph Francis Keaton." How Buster ever arrived at man's estate without crippling himself for life, or worse, has always been a mystery to his family. The boy was continually getting into trouble. He had an advantage over most youngsters in this respect, for the family was forever on the move, and each town presented new adventures — new places to get lost, new ways to get hurt, and new boys to fight. The Three Keatons A ff.w years later, after the elder Keaton ^^ and Houdini had dissolved their tentshow partnership, Buster and his father and mother toured the country as the Three Keatons. One of the inducements which prompted Buster to try his luck in motion pictures late in 1916, at a salary of forty dollars a week, instead of accepting an offer to headline Shuhcrt's Winter Garden show in New York at several hundred dollars a week, was the prospect of settling in one place for more than two weeks. Fate again intervened, and Buster wasn't yet ready to settle down. A few months (Continued on page 89)