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For a LAUGH
The American Picture Audience Wishes Its Hair to Stand on End at the Same Time Its Funny-Bone is being Tickled. That's Why the Comedians Must Risk Their Lives in Gathering Thrills and Laughs
00 the screen has equalled Harold Lloyd in number of thrills per foot of celluloid during the last few years. And the thrills have all been legitimate ones. In common with Keaton, Denny, and other big-time laughmakers, Lloyd absolutely refuses to use a double, and relies almost solely upon his own physical ability, and careful planning and timing of the various stunts beforehand.
Lloyd's Thrills
A typical Llovd thrill was n filmed in '"Girl Shy." Standing on the top of a runaway street-car which was speeding downhill at the rate of nearly thirty miles an hour. Harold grasped the tip of the trolley-pole and was swung clear, dangling over the edge of the car for an instant, then dropping like a plummet into
of sheer luck, the feat went off like clockwork, and the comedian did not even receive a scratch.
In "Safety Last," Lloyd piled thrill upon thrill until the spectator was fairly left gasping for breath. ( )nly an absolute fearlessness of height upon Lloyd's part made the various stunts even possible. Incidentally, it was in this picture that {Continued on page
Earle Foxe, on the left, has had all kinds of luck in avoiding the hospital or the cemetery while making the "Van Bibber" stories. Here he is telephoning for help while dancing on the air a few hundred feet from the baking asphalt