At Leeston
HAROLD LLOYD IN "PROFESSOR
BEWARE"
"Professor Beware" is not an academic warning, but the title of Paramount's new Harold Lloyd comedy to be presented at Leeston Theatre to-morrow evening. Lloyd has picked for a leading lady Phyllis Welch to accompany him on the screwy cross-country jaunt that is the high spot of the picture. Starting out broke in California, the bespectacled comedian and Miss Welch travel across country, having typically Lloyd mishaps and meeting on the way a pair almost as dizzy as the comic himself. The two, Lionel Stander and Raymond Walburn, portray the part of tramps, and it is with their help that Lloyd leads an assault on a yacht in New York harbour to win the girl he wants.
If it were not for the fact that Harold Lloyd at the age of twelve was more interested in a street magician than in fire engines, in all probability the screen would not know the antics of the bespectacled comedian. Lloyd, was watching a fortune teller when fire engines roared past. He didn't chase them, and his strange behaviour aroused the curiosity of John Lane Connor, old time stock company actor who gave him his first training in the theatrical field. It was several/years
later, however, when he teamed with Hal Roach, before he introduced the bespectacled character we know to-day as the screen Harold Lloyd.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 15, 24 February 1939, Page 7
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230At Leeston Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 15, 24 February 1939, Page 7
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