The Picture Show Annual (1928)

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Picture Show Annual 51 sinking through the earth to Australia as the result of a fall and coming back with a wife and a large family. Lupino Lane, the English comedian who had made a big name on the stage before he went into the pictures, was another wise enough to be original and stick to the style that suited him best. Lane is a fine acrobat, and there is little in the falling stunts that he cannot do, and do in a manner that is all his own. He is now as big a favourite on the films as on the stage. Ben Turpin—he of the cross eyes—took advantage of his natural comic look, but Ben also used his eyes in another sense of the word. He took a distinct line and built up a brand of comedy that had its own following, and a big one at that. Larry Semon is more of the old slapstick school, but he has kept ahead of the business and brought in many original touches. The comedies made by " Our Gang " broke into new ground, for while kids had been used in comic pictures right from the start, it was a happy thought to make a picture in which the actors were all kids. We had to wait a long time before Syd Chaplin showed us what a fine character comedian he is, though when acting on the stage he was always reckoned better than his famous brother. In " Charley's Aunt " Syd justified the assertion that the film version was funnier than the stage one, and he has done splendid work since Buster Keaton, the frozen faced comedian. Above, the happy band of child players in Our Gang comedies. On left, Harry Langdon.