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Vignettes of the Studios
X. Mack Sennett's Lot SALLY STEELE
This is the tenth and last studio vignette we shall publish. And if Miss Steele left Mack Sennett's lot until the last, the following description will tell you it wasn't because it is the least in importance.
We are glad to have had the privilege of publishing these colorful word pictures of California's glass houses — reading of them is the next best thing to visiting them. And we are sure our readers will agree that no one could have told of them with more color and feeling than Sally Steele.
YOUTH and Age. Youth and Age on the Sennett lot. Bathing beauties, slim, pert young creatures in a slip of satin or velvet, opera-length silk hose and high-heeled slippers, against a background of sun and rain-stained stages.
Ugly, absurd, intriguing as a Matisse, Mack Sennett's. A harsh pencil would sketch in the lines of its gaunt stages. A brush would paint it grey. But that would not be Mack Sennett's at all. Your true impressionist seeks below the surface, for the feeling, the spirit of his subject. One finds it in unexpected corners, here. Leave the set where cameras grind on a fat butler, falling downstairs with a marble statue in his arms.
Surprised, you come upon a winding pathway, a neat grass-plot, a quaint cottage. You think of hollyhocks, and sunshine warm on back-yard fences. Mabel Normand's dressing-room.
Cross the stage and speak to that young ingenue lead, who, they'll tell you, is bound to make her mark some day. She's reading "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come." She'll tell you that she thinks it's a lovely book.
A box-like dressing-room on one of the open stages. Temporary? To be torn down tomorrow? Rather not. It was built for Charlie Chaplin, when Mack Sennett lured him from the three-a-day with the offer of hundred-dollar-a-week salary. An earnest young dian, almost unknown as yet, occupies it nowj knows ?
In the tower, a square, many-windowed frame ture near the center of the lot, Mack Sennett, himsc
His office has the hauteur imparted by expens; and massive, highly polished mahogany. Cl costumes, painted noses, broken shoes and den' {Continued on page 87)
YOUTH AND AGE Youth and Age on the Sennett lot. Picturesque, shabby, delightful, historic Mack Sennett's!
May they never tear it down!
Photograph by G. F. Cannons