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Sophie K op pel, Sutta 912 503 ntth Ave., New York HJiow Film Farces are Built — From page 29 In the Temples of Tee-Hee sively, one knows, intuitively, a film farce has been born, though its father will never be known. As a reward the gag-man that day is allowed to eat with the extras. The gag-man lays his crowing brainchild before his boss. The boss runs to the studio gate and strikes the gigantic inflated bladder, age-old emblem of the fool, which hangs there, thrice with a caoutchouc cleaver. A Comedy in the Making Fong! Fong! Fong!" The blah-like notes float out upon the studio air. The joke-smiths come a-running to gather around the snicker anvil upon which the humor sacrifice is to be bound and gagged. To put them all in good humor the producer shows them his bank balance. Everyone gets a good laugh. Then amid a silence which is as heavy as one of Pola Negri's love-looks the gag-man is delivered of his idea. Everyone first takes a wallop at it for the purpose of establishing an alibi which may be needed later. Next brows are knitted and the nit-wits go browsing stolidly into the meadows of mirth. Never a smile. Nary a chuckle. Not a laugh. Each man settles into his collar of cackles and pulls for an idea which will sustain and develop the original gag into one, two, three, four, five or six reels, or as much as the producer's creditors will allow. If compliments with a kick are not forthcoming, the gag-men put on false beards and blue-glasses and sneak on to the lots of the makers of serious dramas until hysteria overcomes them. Thus they become full of funny ideas which they proceed to revamp, inflate and burlesque upon their return to their Temples of Tee-Hee. Putting the Lloyd in Celluloid TThus they put the Lloyd in celluloid. Thus they roach the manes of the mighty. Thus they sennettsitize senses of humor of those who still have movie money. Charlie Chaplin was the first gag-man, He was the first of the Kleig clowns to realize the laugh-content of the ridiculous. He forced the chasers to go back to their proper place — after the firewater. Harold Lloyd thrives on refined gags. Larry Semon on gags. He gags himself and his company. Buster Keaton emphasizes or minimizes ordinary acts with sure-fire success. His gag of elevating the business end of a Ford with a toy balloon is typical of his stuff and produced countless cachinnations. Syd Chaplin; brother of the serio-comic Charlie, though he is now going in for character roles, knows the film farce game from laughter to tears. That's why he has gone into the serious parts. The Slapstick Will Never Die 'yd says the slapstick will never be idle because there are so many people who like to laugh without thinking. If they could think they could not laugh at some products of the laugh-laundries. As long as people guffaw when a moke slips on a banana peel and breaks his leg, film farces will persist and gag-men will be persistent. "Film fans like farces because they are sorry for the comedian and feel so superior to him in every way," Syd declares. "People with no sense of humor laugh the loudest while the slickers get their kick *jy discovering innuendoes which they feel the comedian slipped over on the censors. 'X Screen Farces Run in Cycles Lhere is no sure way to success in the comedy field. It runs in cycles — the custard pie cycle, the animal age, the bathing girl era, with producers stealing from each other so zealously that no one knows who started any particular brand of comedy." The producers are going to scowl blackly at Syd for this statement of his, as each claims to be supreme in his own particular field. Three or four of them really are. Roach leads in kid comedies and Dippy Doo Dads — the former for advanced bachelor girls with suppressed desires and the latter for married folk whose fondness for animals is all they have left for suppression. Lloyd has had a hard climb and is now fast overhauling Charlie Chaplin. If Charlie doesn't turn out some comedies pretty soon he will find himself holding only his baggy parts but not his public. Lloyd is getting funnier and funnier. The exhibitors sound his praises on their ticket-dispensers. But Chaplin is still supreme as the king-bee pantomimist while Mack Sennett relies on Turpintine. {Continued on Page qq)