Harry “Jingles” Keaton — Jingling up the Ladder (1925) 🇺🇸

Jingle bell, jingle bell!” they shout around the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio offices, and a long, lean, lanky youth, whose face is always a frozen, unsmiling mask, responds with surprising alacrity. And thereby refutes the old theory that office boys are invariably bored with and supercilious toward their jobs.

“Jingles” Keaton, whose first name of Harry is never used, is Buster’s [Buster Keaton] young brother; and has family glory to live up to beside an earnest ambition of his own.

As a youngster, he replaced Buster in the vaudeville act with their father and mother.

When Jingles elected to learn the movie business, he refused Buster’s proffered influence and started as office boy, for he had ideas of his own about working his way up the ladder.

He says the work of office boy gives him the best opportunity to learn the details of film production and to decide for which branch of the work he is best fitted, as he “circulates” through all departments daily.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1925