When the movies were young (1925)

Back Home Again 177 "Armor, in this heat? Armor? I guess I won't wear Then a short pause, "Are you going to wear armor?" "Yes, I'm no teacher's pet," said Dell, as he gathered to himself the pieces of his suit of mail and began to climb into them. So the doubting Mack Sennett could do naught but imitate him, for no matter how balky his manner, one word from the boss and he became a good little boy again. In August we were once more back in Cuddebackville. The O. and W.'s conductor was no longer skeptical of our visits. We brought so many actors sometimes that we not only filled the little Inn but had to find neighboring farmhouses in which to park the overflow. We met all the old Cuddebacks again. We never realized what a tribe they were until we had to do a scene in a cemetery, and every grave we picked made trouble for us with some Cuddeback or other still living. How to get away with it we didn't know until we hit upon the idea of simultaneously enacting a fake but intensely melodramatic scene down by the General Store. That did the trick. All the villagers missed their lunch that day and were unaware of the desecration of their dead. "Wally" Walthall gave his famous fried chicken luncheon at the minister's house. Talent was versatile. We'd worked through our lunch hour this day, so it was either go lunchlcss or beg the privilege of slaughtering some of the minister's wife's tempting spring chickens and cooking them in her kitchen. That's how "Wally" had the opportunity to prove his fried chicken the equal of any Ritz-Carlton's. We met up with old Pete again. Although nearly ninety, he was worrying his faithful spouse into a deep