Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1916)

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IMP COMEDY PLUMBERS LUNCH THOUGH THE BATHROOM FLOODS. Willie Pepper smashes a water pipe in the bathtub. They send for Slim Hoover (Victor Potel) and his plumber's assistant (Wan Duffy). The whistle blows before Willie is rescued. hat. It was a new hat, and Victor hasn't been paying for expensive hats long enough to get used to the idea of seeing perfectly good money blow away like that. He was so naturally and so anxiously funny that the camera man unfurled his ma chine and took enough of the run to make several good scenes for a new play. He did not get the hat, which is altogether another story. For it was found by another film company and worn by one of the actresses in a competitor's play, which grieved Mr. Potel almost more than losing the price of the hat. The Short Post A student in one of the Eastern universities, going into a picture show paused a moment to let his eyes get used to the dim light before he could look for a seat, and rested his hand on the rounded top of a short post. To his surprise the post revolved, then tipped sideways, and two very white spots appeared. "Say, mistah, " said a deep voice, with a slight irritation apparent in its tone, "what for you white men keep puttin' yoh hands on mah haid? I ain' no pos'." IMP COMEDY I'M A UNION MAN. LADY. WE DONT WORK OVERTIME. Mrs. Pepper (Teddy Martin) and her maid (June Bernoudy) plead with the plumbers to rescue Willie Pepper (Billy Mason), who is floating frantically about in the flooded bathroom. The the plumbers refuse to work overtime, and Mrs. Pepper and her maid retrieve Willie through the transom with a pair of ice tongs. Then the plot begins rapidly to thicken. His Face Is His Fortune ifT^HAT'S right," said Victor Potel, who boasts that he is the homeliest man in motion pictures to-day. "Me and Abraham Lincoln are in the same class when it comes to looks. My appearance used to annoy me considerable, and every occupation I followed brought more laughs than it did coin. "So I concluded that it was folly to allow people to laugh at me for nothing. If they had to laugh, I'd make 'em pay for the privilege. I went into motion pictures, and for the first time in my life I found that my face was my fortune. It made money for me, and I've grown sort of fond of it on that account. ' ' Mr. Potel is built on the long, slender, svelt type. He needs no grotesque clothes or grimaces to add to his fun — he is funny enough just as he stands. On a recent return from making an exterior film, Mr. Potel and his wife drove ahead of the camera car. Mrs. Potel thinks her husband is mighty good-looking and rather resents it when he calls himself homely. She was saying down the law to him as they drove, concerning a scene just filmed, and demanding that he retract his own statements as to his personal type of facial architecture, when her hat blew IMP COMF.DY WHEN WILLIE WENT WILD off. Victor stopped the car and hit the high places chasing the Victor Potel, as Slim Hoover, valet to Hon. Willie, son of a duke, enjoys seeing his titled master being hazed by the habitues of a Western saloon, who put him through his paces.