CHAPTER 7
Once again airborne, Martin reached for his now tattered Chicago tabloid. Under the Danny Deacon article he’d read earlier, were photos from his different roles. He was shown as a card shark (“The Card Players,” 1915); a pirate (“Treasure Island,” 1916); a circus clown (“Smiley the Great,” 1918); as Billy Buster for the first time (“The Little Hobo’s Christmas,” 1922); again as Billy Buster (Billy at the Circus,” 1923); Billy Buster as a fop (“Billy, Barber to King Louis,” 1926); Billy as an inventor (“Old Times, New Times,” 1929 – released with sound effects and musical scoring); then another paragraph which explained Danny’s hiatus from the scene, while he took even longer for his next project which, to everyone’s shock, was another silent! (“The Urchin,” 1932); then, a pho
