Dancer Hal Skelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1891 He left home at 15 to join a circus at 17 went into comedy toured with light opera in China and Japan joined after that Dockstaders Minstrels made his Broadway debut in 1918 in Fiddlers Three His biggest success was the Broadway play Burlesque in which he played opposite future movie star Barbara Stanwyck He also starred in the film version of it The Dance of Life He died in 1934 when his friends car in which he was traveling was hit by a train on a crossing
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