"NOT TEXI, PLEASE"
A BAD NAME FOR A FRIEND' S PET DOG. If you have a pet dog and you are racking your brains for a name for him, don't for a minute consider the name "Texi." So warns Harold Lloyd, comedy king, who has had an experience with /
jnst such a dog, and who knows j whereof he speaks. I The incident occurs in "Feet First," Lloyd's newest Paramount release, | which comes to the Majestic Theatre on Monday next. j As a chivalrous young shoe clerk j running an errand for his boss, Har- | old eneounters a young woman, Barj hara Kent, who has just lost her J canine pet. As the little pooch runs J
down the street, Harold asks Barbara for the fugitive's name. Immediately Harold dashes in pursuit, .yelling, "Taxi, taxi, here taxi, In a thrice, he is pursued by a honking assortment of "Yellows," "Checkers" and "Blaek and Whites" — almost being run down by the eager drivers, who have mistaken him for a "fare."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 65, 7 November 1931, Page 5
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