ABSTRACT
For Many Years Harold Lloyd was one of Chaplin’s keenest competitors for the title of King of the Film Comedians. As soon as the camera was set up and the photographer had arranged a chair for Harold Lloyd, the bomb was lit. Harold thought nothing more about films, and went on tour with a travelling stock company, struggling for several years in tenth-rate parts in company with Charlie Ruggles, Florence Reed, and William Desmond. Hollywood was young and growing, but it could still offer plenty of work and opportunity to the right people. The Lloyd recipe for laughs was based on the old theme of the weak and innocent young man meeting difficulties in a big world full of sophisticated and clever people. In Britain the picture was re-titled Mad Wednesday, and was not shown until 1951.
