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Aren't Women Funny?
This unusual article contends that comediennes are just as funny as comedians, but they aren't given a chance — or haven't the courage to sacrifice their good looks.
B? H. A. Wood mansee
EVERY woman in the land will testify to the fact that men are funny — especially husbands. "I'll never forget the look on John's face when he unscrewedi the radiator cap and the muddy water boiled up over his dean shirt !" many a wife has chuckled to her women friends.
What woman hasn't some such anecdote with which to entertain her acquaintances? To the average wife, the miscalculations of her husband are a never-failing
source of amusement
But if men are funny, aren't women funny, too? It is true that many a man, recounting ' the latest eccentricity of his wife, or girl friend, has exclaimed: "Aren't women funny?" But more often the remark is delivered with a gesture of despair, rather than with a laugh.
Let's see how the funny women of the screen measure up to the funny men. Who are the prominent male
Men must be funny.
Photo Jjy Autrey
Marjorie Beebe is an example of what a feminine funster can do, when given half a chance.
fun makers ? Take a deep breath, and wade through this list:
Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langd o n, Buster Keaton, Chest e r Conklin, Ford Sterling, Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Reginald Denny, Douglas MacLean, Raymond Griffith, Clyde Cook, Monty Banks, Johnny Hines, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Bert Roach, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Murray, George Sidney,
Arthur Lake, Glenn Tryon, William Austin, Mack Swain, Arthur Stone, and W. C. Fields.
Every man-jack of them is a star or featured player in important pictures ! Compare this aggregation with their feminine rivals. One thinks of Louise Fazenda, Mabel Normand, and Marion Davies. Then of Dot Farley, Polly Moran, Babe London, and those colleagues of the very late John Bunny, Flora Finch and Kate Price. There are other comediennes, but the list, in comparison with the first, is far from imposing. It looks even smaller, if we consider the host of two-reel Arnedy players, headed by such figures as Charlie Chase, Bobby Veron, Lupino Lane, and Billy Dooley. The short comedies usually have men stars.
Some one asks : "How about Colleen Moore, Clara Bow, Bebe Daniels, Laura La Plante, Marie Prevost, et al? Do the achievements of these stars entitle them to be classed as comediennes, and are the ladies going to make a showing in that field after all ? But this list might be more than matched by a list of men such as Richard Dix,. Rod La Rocque, Jack Mulhall, and Owen: and Tom Moore. The men and women of this class are not, strictly speaking, comedians, for their forte is not comedy, but romantic roles with comedy trimmings. Although they play comedy well, audiences do not come to theaters primarily to laugh at them.
Even among screen children, the male seems to get more laughs. Jackie Coogan was funner than Baby Peggy. The amusing "Our Gang" is mostly masculine, and the kids that amuse us most are the rotund Joe Cobb and little black Farina. In the stilt younger set, "BigBoy'' and "Snookums" are ahead of the girl infants in getting laughs.