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RT'S OUTCAST
By Anna Vrophater
d,Sennett created the comedy cop, the seagoing bath tub, the non-penetrating bullet, the rubber club, the skidding patrol wagon, and, best of all, the back-firing sub-title which says everything it means and more.
fS^Yet Mack Sennett u the only director who has never burned Babylon except by way of a joke.
such a humorous figure that even in serious pictures, rough little boys burst into laughter when a policeman appears. And Mack trained Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Gloria Swanson, Mae Busch, Marie Prevost, Ford Sterling, Sydney Chaplin, Al St. John, Louise Fazenda, Phyllis Haver and a lot of other of the liveliest boys and girls on the screen.
Mack Sennett' 's Record
M oreover, Mack's powers of invention have been something terrible, for he has devised such stunts as the seagoing bath tub, the non-penetrating bullet, the rubber club, the skidding patroL wagon, the untameable fire hose and the Ford which runs without an engine. Mack also invented the back-firing sub-title which says everything it means and more besides. (Continued on page 91)
and morals all its own. Mack has never "adapted" plays and books to the screen ; he has never employed the services of eminent authors ; he has never, except in a few cases and then halfheartedly called upon the big names of the legitimate stage for talent. He is a self-supporting director ; he bakes, throws and makes his own pies.
On the other hand, Mack did create the comic cop, and although he doesn't use him any more, he has made the cop