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Hal E. Chester (CURSE OF THE DEMON)

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georgechastain		#21	[-]
Apr 29 12 10:28 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: << I was pleased to win it for my collection of serial-related autographs << I'm not much "into" autographs any more but I do still enjoy one signed photo that's in my files: an ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL shot of my interviewees Frank Coghlan, Billy Benedict and Louise Currie, all of whom autographed and personalized it to me. (I apologize for the digression from the obsequies but I can't resist): Great stuff, Tom, especially since you got to meet and talk to them yourself. I've met a few old-timers from cliffhangers at movie shows (most of them gone now), and I wrote to many others just in time. But I never met any of that trio even though Coghlan and Benedict were guests at lots of shows to the end of their lives. Most of my collection I've bought from other collectors or dealers, including several CAPTAIN MARVEL photos signed by Frank and Billy (one or two signed by both), and a recently-acquired photo of Louise in an action scene from THE MASKED MARVEL. Have some other photos from CAPTAIN MARVEL that are special though, including portraits of John Davidson and Jack Mulhall, Harry Worth (hidden under the cowl and robe of "The Scorpion," inscribed and signed to Alex Gordon c. 1950), and a small paper photo of Tom Tyler in a white cowboy outfit, signed in pencil for a young girl when the circus Tom was traveling with passed through her small Alabama town in the early 30s.
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TomWeaver999		#22	[-]
Apr 29 12 10:54 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	VERY very cool -- especially the Harry Worth. It was probably the one time he was ever ASKED for an autograph!
federal operator 99		#23	[-]
May 4 12 8:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here is an interesting factoid about "Hally" (Hal E.) Chester that I didn't know until recently: he was a brother-in-law of Dead End Kid Gabriel Dell! It seems he married Gabe's sister, Ethel, in 1946, according to this blurb from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Hal E. Chester, 25 now a movie producer at Monogram Studios, and his bride-to-be, Ethel Dell, 21, leave today by auto for Las Vegas for the marriage. Miss Dell is the sister of Gabriel Dell, another of the original "Dead End" company on the Broadway stage. Dell will be best man at the wedding. Mrs Marie Dell, mother of the bride and John J. Maxcey, an uncle will accompany the wedding party. http://bowery-bijou.blogspot.com/
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TomWeaver999		#24	[-]
May 23 12 5:58 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There are NO Englishters here who can describe the con that Chester disrupted a few years ago?
thehorrorboy		#25	[-]
May 23 12 3:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What DIDDDD he DOOOO, anyway?
Gojira		#26	[-]
May 26 12 8:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow, a producer at 25!
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