I didn't at first, this morning, because he was so hungry and needed a shave, and he darned near had me bawling when he couldn't hold his cup o' coffee except with two hands.

But what d'you think ?--pretty soon he tells me himself that he looks a great deal like Harold Parmalee and wouldn't mind playing parts like Parmalee, though he prefers Western stuff.
Wouldn't that get you ?" The film was run again so that Baird could study the Gill face in the light of this new knowledge.
"He does, he does, he certainly does--if he don't look like a No.
9 company of Parmalee I'll eat that film.

Say, Flips, you did find something." "Oh, I knew it; didn't I tell you so ?" "But, listen--does he know he's funny ?" "Not in a thousand years! He doesn't know anything's funny, near as I can make him." They were out in the light again, walking slowly back to the Buckeye offices.
"Get this," said Baird seriously.

"You may think I'm kidding, but only yesterday I was trying to think if I couldn't dig up some guy that looked more like Parmalee than Parmalee himself does--just enough more to get the laugh, see?
And you spring this lad on me.

All he needs is the eyebrows worked up a little bit.