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Turpin Tribulations
By KENNETH McGAFFEY
LI [TLE would one think, seeing this pampered idol of ^the cinema, this spoiled, luxury-loving Adonis of
the Silver Sheet; that he. too. had once known adversity. Seeing him now. reclining on silks and satins, treated with the tenderness and consideration that a mother gives her child, one could never dream that the cruel, cold, relentless hand of Misfortune once had him by the hack of the neck. When he sweeps, with majestic brides into the love scenes that have made him famous, and clasps the object of his adoration in his arm>. one can imagine that he has lived, but one cannot dream of aujjht but sweet music and soft words greeting his ear. 1 refer to that popular idol of the fair sex. that mirror of beauty and poetry of motion. Mr. Benjamin Turpin. who wears graven on his coat-of-arms that famous Latin motto "I am honest, altho I look crooked."
Photograph (below) £ by Mack Sennett
Ben Turpin has not always been crosseyed. It was when he wa working with Essanay, about nine year; ago, that he used to cross his eye^ just for the fun of it, until one morning he woke u-\ gazed in the mirror and found them definitely ani substantially crossed. He says he coul-1 have them straightened, but what's the use? His motto is, "I'm honest, altho I look crooked." Above, a portrait, and below, a scene from a Sennett comedy
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Now that Ben is a star, and deservedly so. he can look back on his turbulent career with more or less a m u s e men! . but. believe me — or believe him — it was not so goshhanged funny when it was happening. Old John R. Adversity gave him a number of sharp and severe kickin the shins before he assembled himself on the Mack Sennett lot and really got his chance. Ben unhesitatingly gives Sennett the credit for finding and developing him. Come to look backon it, Mack has found and developed quite a few of our well-known stars, but there are few. very few. who will admit it in Turpin's emphatic manner. Turpin was born in Xew Orleans, some while back, and while he was a kid there, he spent most of his spare time learning acrobatics, from the colored stevedores along the levee he picked up a few dance steps, until it wasn't long before he had pieced (Continued on page 112 ) n
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