| Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd's whirlwind director, was born in Elmira, N. Y.,
in 1892, and has been on the jump ever since. While attending the Elmira
Academy Mr. Roach went in most strenuously for athletics and was one of
the best football players that that institution ever turned out. In 1913
he worked with Universal as an actor and that marked his first experiences
in the silent drama. The following year he organized his own company with
Harold Lloyd as the star and has been directing that versatile comedian's
doings on the screen ever since. Recently the Hal Roach studios were erected
on the coast at a cost of more than $100,000. |