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Mr. Fuhr
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fart would say, "Too bad you were not here five minites ago, Lew. Charley just left. He was telling us
alK)ut the time he was captured by a cannibal tribe of
pigmies' — "
Call for Mr. Fuhr
If anyone went to Vernon for dinner, conversation had to be suspended while the buttons went through the r(K>ms calling "Mr. Charles Fuhr! Paging Mr. Fuhr!" At a big film night at the Sunset Inn the head waiter was almost sure to ring for silence and ask "Is Mr. Charles Fuhr in the room? He's wanted on the 'phone."
For two years Charles Fuhr was one of the most famous characters in Hollywood. He would disappear for a time, then the morning's paper would bear the flaming headlines, "Wanderer Returns! Genial First-Nightcr Hack in Land of the Living. Charley Fuhr who has been in Ne7i' York, guiding the destinies of his suter Bessie, a concert pianist, returned to town today. Among those
Tom Geraghty, scenario writer, had this picture taken to prove
he could read. He wag a member of the famous Round Table
group, whose gathering in honor of Mr. Fuhr is here depicted
in a newspaper cartoon
gathered at the Old Heidelberg table at the Hoffman cafe, glad to 'welcome him back, zvere William S. Hart, his sister, Mary Ellen, Buster Keaton, Tom Geraghty, Natalie Talmadge, Scoop Conlon, Johnnie Grey, Bennie Ziedman, Hal Coolcy, Mitchell Leivis, Pat Dowling."
"Recuperating Nicely.'' another headhne would reassure an an.xious world. "Popular Bon-l-'izfant Expects to be Among Friends This Week End." Charley Fuhr, the story would go on to explain, had been suffering from a slight attack of epigastralgia, but he was expected to recover in time to entertain a few fi*iends at his new home, "The Xest," among them Fddie Sutherland, George Procter, Frank Borzage, Hull Montana, Walter McNamara and Kenneth McGaflfey.
Or perhaps it was an argument over the spelling of the name "Fuhr" that the newspajiers chronicled, one authority tracing the surname back to the Norman "Feor," another claiming it was the Germanic "Fuer," while Charley himself upheld its origin as pure Celtic and derived from Patric O'Fuhr, one of the early kings of Ireland.
Though few of the lovely ladies of the screen had actually made the acquaintance of the mysterious bonvivant, many of them had received evidence of his admiration for feminine beauty. It often happened that when .some young man had invited a picture girl to dine with him at a restaurant patronized by the movie colony, the waiter would set a bottle of champagne down on their table with a flourish and announce "For the lady — with the compliments of Mr. Charley Fuhr!"
Hut when her empurpled escort, choking with rage, sought out the gallant Mr. Fuhr with the expressed intention of punching him in the eye, it was always to l)e told that he had just that moment left. {Continued on page 70)
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