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r >0 Picture Show Armual He also worked a new line by doing rather dangerous stunts instead of funny ones, and he, like Chaplin, punched a big hole in the reputation of the big men who had ruled the comics, the men who told him he couldn t be funny without a funny make-up. Buster Keaton also created a new line in picture comedy when he adopted the frozen face and the pancake hat that went so well with it. Perhaps Keaton s chief asset as a laughter-maker is that he always puts something really new into every fresh picture. One of his big successes was in the picture where he co-starred with a cow, and Buster made the cow as funny as himself. Keaton always puts a lot of story into his pictures, however wild he makes it by his mad inventions, such as Lupino Lane, of the famou. British family of Lupino, has made a name in American comedies. a success in slapstick, but he knew this kind of foolery could not last, and he was never keen on making such pictures. As soon as he was important enough to have a say in the production of his films he started a new line. He made comic pictures in which there was some kind of a connected story, and in which the chief the hero of the story. But the greatest thing he did was to bring pathos into the picture. In such pictures as " Shoulder Arms," " Pay Day," " The Kid," and " The Gold Rush," people not only laughed at Charlie, they were sorry for him, and he made them cry as well as laugh. He created a new form of comedy, the best description of which is " the tragic-comedy of the under dog." Hollywood gasped when this idea was first mooted. It was against all the accepted traditions of comic pictures, and Charlie had to fight hard to get his own way. His tremendous success started a host of imitations, but they died almost at birth. Nobody has ever got Charlie's line. Harold Lloyd was too wise to attempt any imitations. He, too, created a new line in comedy, and stuck to it till he became popular. Now he is the biggest money- maker on the screen. But, like Charlie, he had to fight hard before he got there. He broke one of the cast-iron rules of comedy producers when he started to become a comedian without a funny make-up. Apart from his lensless spectacles, Harold dressed like an ordinary man. Ben Turpin.