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Some of the best actors in the world were trained on Sennett s old roughneck comedy lot, it might well he called
By HARRY CARR
The Incubator of Genius
T
HE young lady's disturbing blue eyes were swimming and two big tears were having a race down the sides of her little snub nose.
As she wept in silence, one tiny hand went ruefully to feel of the hurt place under the seat of her little sailor trousers.
A comrade stood by her side, cheering her with friendly words. His voice came soothingly to her from a face dripping with the wreck of a raspberry pie.
And, looking, I knew that Mack Sennett had started on the education of some more actors ; and that in all probability they will take their places eventually among the illustrious of the world — not as pie heavers, but as emotional actors, as finished comedians — some of the satirists.
Some of the best actors in the world were trained on Sennett's old rough-neck comedy lot.
Among the crop of immortals were :
Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ray Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Marie Prevost, Louise Fazenda, Maude Wayne, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Wallace
For several years the old pool on the Sennett lot was given over to pollywogs and wigglers instead of bathing girls. But now Sennett is making comedies again with Harry Langdon and the bathing girls seen with him above in a scene from "Picking Peaches." A new portrait of Mack Sennett is seen in the circle
Beery, Phyllis Haver, Mary Thurman, and many others. For several years the old bathing pool has been given over to pollywogs and wigglers instead of bathing girls. Grown rich from his investments, Sennett took a long vacation and retired to leisurely contemplation and reflection.
But lately he happened to come across a young comedian who interested him very greatly. So very much was he interested that he opened up the old studio again and sent out another S.O.S. call for youth and beauty and legs.
The old laugh-and-girl factory is running full blast again
and I am writing this to wonder whether it means that a
new crop of histrionic genius will be given to the screen.
In the old days they went into the hopper as little girls
with lovely legs and they came out finished actresses.
Gloria Swanson told me the other day that of all the
big directors she has worked with
since her days of stardom, she
has never found one who could
improve upon the lessons she
learned being hit with pies and
being chased by "prop" lions in
the old days on the Sennett lot.
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