Film Fun (July 1915)

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COPYRIGHT, VI TAG RAPH COMPANY FLORA FINCH, KATE PRICE AND JAY DURGGINS doing vaudeville stunts on the big time, and every time he gets a chance he goes to a motion-picture show just to pick up the funny remarks and work them into his dialogue. “The other day I landed behind two club women, who began to tell stories about their children. “ ‘My four-year-old is crazy about the picture shows,’ said one of them. ‘We usually take him to a good show on Saturday afternoon, and he looks for¬ ward to it all week. Last Saturday I had him dressed and ready to go to the pictures, when his father came home from the office, suffering from a sudden and severe attack of acute indigestion. Harrison heard me telephoning hurriedly for the doctor and inquired anxiously as to the need for a doctor’s services. He has never forgotten his illness of last winter, and his memories of a doctor and his medicine are not pleasant. “ ‘Poor daddy is sick,’ I said. “ ‘What will the doctor do?’ inquired Harrison. Comedy Is Infectious 1 1 NEVER see a grouchy crowd leaving a motion-picture show,’’ said a manager on a Southern circuit. “Every one of them feels that he has got his money’s worth in some one of the pictures. “The comedy reels are infectious, too. Take an interval between two funny pictures, when everybody has giggled him¬ self into a good humor, and then the audience will begin to tell all the funny things that have happened at home. It isn’t once in a year that you’ll hear any troubles in a motion-picture show. “The other night I was standing by the box office when two chaps came in. Each one was trying to shift the burden of the tickets to the other fellow, and the big one got away with it. “‘You go ahead and get the tickets,’ he said. ‘My feet hurt me so I can’t stand in that long line.’ “ ‘Be careful you don’t sit down near the radiator, then, ’re¬ turned his friend bitterly. ‘ The heat may make your corns pop. ’ ’’ He Listened In “Once in a while when things get slow I go in and sit down just to pick up the funny things. Why, say, I have a friend COPYRIGHT, VITAGRAPH COMPANY KATE PRICE, ONE OF THE BEST COMEDY STARS Everybody Laughs with the Fat Ones “Fat people are born comedians,” claimed a fat woman fan. “Look at all the funny fats on the screens. Anyone of them can get a laugh with a mere gesture or a grimace.” “How about Flora Finch?” jeered her thin husband. “She’s funny enough for me. I don’t see that fat folks have any comer on humor.” COPYRIGHT, KEYSTONE COMEDIES FATTY” ALWAYS TELLS THE STORY BY HIS EXPRESSION “ ‘The doctor will give poor daddy nasty medicine,’ I said. “ ‘You don’t need the doctor to give you nasty medicine, daddy,’ said Harrison reassuringly. ‘The closet shelf is full of it!’ ”