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Clara (Clóirtheach or An Clárach in Irish) is a town on the River Brosna in County Offaly and is the 10th largest town in the midlands of Ireland. The town has a population of 3001 (2006 census), however a number of well populated housing estates lie outside the town boundary making the actual population higher. Clara has plenty of local services including churches, banks, credit union, schools, supermarkets, shops, garages, pubs, nightclubs and restaurants. It has its own Garda(police) and fire station while the Midlands regional hospital is located just seven miles away in Tullamore. Clara has a strong association with sport. The successful GAA club looks after Gaelic football and hurling from under 8 to senior level. Clara also has a successful junior soccer club. The town has two swimming pools and a successful pitch and putt club. Clara's power lifting club has won a number of national and international awards. A golf driving range is located in the town also with the Esker Hills golf club located just outside the town. There is a local equestrian centre and sports centre also.
Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.
Clarisa Kimball was born in Chicago; her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern were travelling stock actors. She made her stage debut at the age of three, and throughout her early childhood travelled with her parents and acted with their theater company. She attended St. Francis Xavier's Academy in Chicago and then was afterwards hired into a stock company and resumed her stage career, travelling extensively through the United States and playing various small town theaters.
Early in her career she met and married a fellow stock company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph Studios, Clara Kimball Young, as she was then known, and her husband were both offered yearly contracts in 1912.
In the new medium of motion pictures, and without much screen competition, Clara Kimball Young's star at Vitagraph rose quickly. Young was predominantly cast in one and two reel roles as the virtuous heroine. By 1913 she had become one of the most popular leading ladies at Vitagraph and placed at number seventeen in a public popularity poll. Unfortunately, many of Young's films from her early period with Vitagraph are now lost.
Actors: Jack Baxley (actor), John Berkes (actor), Francis X. Bushman (actor), Gavin Gordon (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Jack Richardson (actor), James Seay (actor), Ruth Clifford (actress), Laura Treadwell (actress), Clara Kimball Young (actress), Martin Mooney (producer), Martin Mooney (writer), William Beaudine (director), Robert O. Crandall (editor), Frank Hagney (actor),
Plot: The grandparents, Daniel Mason('William Halligan' (qv)) and Mrs. Mason ('Laura Treadwell' (qv)) of Danny Mason ('Robert 'Buzz' Henry' (qv))), an orphaned boy, are trying to have him put into their custody rather than that of his uncle, Jim King ('James Seay' (qv)), a racetrack veterinary, as they object to the track environment in which he is being raised. Their destinies become entwined with that of former silent-film stars 'Francis X. Bushman' (qv)) and 'Clara Kimball Young' (qv)) and ex-heavyweight champion 'James J. Jeffries' (qv)), and that of a broken-down race horse named "Mr. Celebrity." The tagline tells it all.
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