Karloff had a hard fight to make good; Dulwich-born and Enfield bred, he is entitled to two public school ties—Dulwich and Uppingham. He went to King's College, London.
But universities were not his idea of life. He went to Canada. Selling real estate, working in a pick and shovel crew, truck-driving, farming unsuccessfully passed the years.
He got a job as villain in a touring company. The outfit was stranded at Regina. He was in and out of small theatrical parts until 1920, when he went to Hollwood. Stardom came slowly.
Now Karloff is a tall, handsome, iron-grey-haired man of 53.
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