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Photoplay Magazine
where they were playing good parts in musical comedy. When moving pictures began to occupy the center of the stage Bud was the first to jump. He played with the Biograph a while and then for a year played opposite Fred Mace with the Majestic. Ham continued his musical comedy career somewhat longer and then, a little more than two years ago went to the camera.
Ham's first venture was hardly a success. He was in stock for two weeks when the manager "flew the coop" with all the available funds and left Ham flat on his back. It was at this juncture that he joined the Kalem.
One day they wanted Ham to play a rube part. "I always felt at home playing a rube," said Ham, "and took some pains with my makeup." He dug up the scraggly moustache, the dilapidated pants and the mud-scow shoes and stepped into view.
One look at Ham was sufficient, the cameraman w e n t into hysteric s, t h e di
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rector had a fit and the stagehands all had convulsions. Ham was immediately assigned the task of heading his own company and turning out laughs by the reel.
Bud was immediately grabbed to act as a foil for Ham's grotesque humor and the Ham comedies began to make fame and fortune for the two unknowns.
Both are extremely serious looking to the unclad orb and no one to take a look at them would imagine that both are nothing more than a palpitating giggle from toes to thatch. Ham is a practical j.oker of considerable note and Bud constitutes the most enthusiastic of Ham's audience whether the joke is on him or on somebody else.
Each takes his work very seriously. Don't these pictures show it?