Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

91 Art's Outcast (Continued from page 41) Mack's greatest comedian, at present, en Turpin who makes ladies scream with horror and gentlemen rage with disgust. Ben's sole claim to glory is ross eyes and his hair, which is cut Shakespearean style. Ben has all the superb and eloquent gestures of an actor of the old school. His technique is about the same as that of Robert Mantell. On the screen he creates a vividly feal person. Ben is the guileless fool and the innocent man of the world, ust a touch of reckless and mad m in his nature. He is the prey npires, the tool of wild women, ; victim of his own emotions and goat of his own ideals. In other words, Ben is just like ;rage voting citizen except that he has cross eyes. Ben is Franklyn Fairchild, the ladies' man: or Rodney St. Clair, the man's man and hero of Married Life — Not a War Picture. And he is Sam le, "our hero brave and bold, ivory head with heart of gold." Turpin and the Miracle % was in A Small Town Idol that went to Hollywood and scooped a raeat on Merton of the Movies, Souls for and Hollywood. In the same . too, Ben played the burlesque > of another Miracle Man. As the oi~ the village church, he is kicked out 1 ■ disgrace because he is found with ture of a bathing girl in his pocket. Whereupon he steps to the altar and appeal? to heaven to vindicate him. there no justice? Is there no e cries out in deep agony of soul. ei • ipon Heaven answers him. The window falls and a ray of sunlight encir Ben's head. :r there is a God or the window needs fixing," exclaims Ben. Seat of the Pants Sonatas ACf Sennett now concerns himself mostly with burlesques. In the old days ie turned out what George Jean Nathan called "seat of the pants sonatas." He was an expert at rough stuff r-.. >ne picture, Louise Fazenda urkish girl, led her pet goat into ; : ,ue while the Orientals were bending in prayer. It takes a great mind to think of a stunt like that. earlier comedies centered about a few choi. e characters. There were Mabel and Fatty and Charlie, later just Mabel and Fatty. And then there were Ambrose and the Walrus. Ford Sterling and Hank Mann — the fellow with an Elihu Root hair cut — and Frank Hayes, desk sergeant of the Keystone cops were also heroes in his outrageous farces. Ford Sterling usually played the jealous and suspicious husband with the flirtatious wife while Hank Mann was a bashful boy who was willing to listen to reason. And, too, there were John Henry, Pepper, the cat, and Teddy the great Dane. Those were the grand old days when Gloria Swanson was "atmosphere" in a bathing suit and it w considered an insult to Will H for a man to hit his lawful wife wi ' custard pie. Set tt Changed Humor of World :;tt's greatest comedies have bee ; short ones, although Tillie's Punctured Romance changed the humor oi the world by bringing Chaplin into i . ice. Audiences can't stand the str; : a large dose cr Mack's merciless it. They claim he is too ridiculou 6o tell a straight story that lasts an hour. 1 t, many persons who accepted The B ast of Berlin as sound internal nal politics, threatened to protest to ie j vernment about Mack's comedy, Ya Doodle in Berlin. They thought it xtremely undignified of Mack to the ex-Kaiser cheating at crt And they thought it was bad ta.< t Mack to present the Crown Pi ice as a chicken-chaser who couldn't keep his mind on the war when there was a woman in the room. More Than Mere Foolishness M ack's shorter comedies are accepted as so much foolishness which you can take or leave alone on the program of the evening. But even his more pretenious efforts don't start any roarings among the critical lions who are looking for a dramatic theme, a message, or maybe a moral in any picture that isn't openly labelled a slapstick time-killer. 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