George O’Hara — His Career (1924) 🇺🇸

George O’Hara, who is starring in the Witwer fighting stuff
as a long career behind him that for one youth is enough.

He was born in Salt Lake City and at five went to Spokane.
There his godfather is living, millionaire, and his best fan.

Mining experts were his kinsfolk, but that didn’t suit young George.
No, the mines gave him a headache, he preferred the plow or forge.

When a schoolboy his fond parents moved to Hollywood one day,
and young George earned his first money as an office boy, they say.

It was on a big newspaper where the phones made each nerve jump.
Three or four would start a-buzzing which would send him up a stump:

Otherwise young George O’Hara rather liked the atmosphere.
But a friend took him to Sennett’s, where began his real career.

He did everything at Sennett’s in the years there — except bathe.
He was cutter, writer, gag man, actor, wielding megaphone and lathe;

Then he played with Shirley Mason as her handsome leading man;
After that he soared to stardom when the “Fighting Blood” began.

He has routed many boxers — Rivers, Salvadore, McCoy —
Some big names and just a starter, as a boxer he’s “some boy.”

As an amateur, his trainer says that George can box with class;
He’s a whirlwind with that left hand and a shark with his right pass.

George O’Hara you can count on, for he does each task up brown,
And obstacles that’d daunt most folks, he’s always sure to down.

Perhaps they’re better chauffeurs, myself perchance, or you;
But give the lad a chance, now please, O’Hara’s twenty-two.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, May 1924