By Laura Petersen Balogh
Karl Dane's existence was once a Cinderella tale long gone horribly unsuitable. The immigrant from Copenhagen used to be quickly reworked from a machinist to a Hollywood famous person after his flip because the tobacco-chewing narrow in The mammoth Parade in 1925. After that, Dane seemed in additional than forty motion pictures with such luminaries as Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and William Haines till improvement of talkies almost ruined his profession. the main well-known casualty of the transition from silent to sound movie, Dane reportedly misplaced his profession as a result of his accessory. He used to be broke and on my own on the top of the melancholy and dedicated suicide in 1934.
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According to Karl’s records, his friend, Charles Lindgren, of 345 Court Street, acted in this capacity. Not much is known today about this friend or how close the two men were. Charles’s census records and draft registration card show that he was a carpenter born in Finland in June 1884. Life in a boardinghouse would have provided a type of substitute for Karl’s family routine back in Copenhagen. 12 Usually private homes, guests paid a certain rate for a specified period of time. Meals were commonly taken together with the landlady and other guests.
A dynamic, handsome, and confident figure in his own right, Reinald completed his apprenticeship in October 1903 and then received specialized training as an electrician. That year he decided to seek his fortune outside of the capital city, and he set out for Jutland, the main island of Denmark, where their father had learned the glove-making trade. For the next few years Reinald traveled all over the area, very much in demand as a master craftsman. In a small town named Give he met the woman he would eventually marry, Margrethe Schøler, two years his senior.
In a September 1927 Motion Picture Classic magazine interview, Karl commented on these years: “It was tough — Geez! ”10 Most newcomers to America faced the same difficult and discouraging struggle, although officials did try to help people acclimate. Immigrants were provided with information about English lessons and classes when they disembarked. A search through the 1916 New York Times shows that there were a number of advertisements for various language schools. The famed Berlitz school had a branch in Brooklyn.