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Birth of the Tramp. When he arrived in Los Angeles at 24, Chaplin was a thoroughly experienced veteran of the theater. On his first day at the studio, Mack Sennett took him aside to explain that "the essence of our comedy is a chase." Chaplin knew better, but for months as he worked under and fought with Sennett's directors, his funniest and most inventive efforts kept winding up on the cutting-room floor...
...actors are partly Equity and partly amateur, plus 20 ballerinas from the Washington School of the Ballet. They do one play a season, and this summer's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is just right for its setting -full of pageantry and horseplay and Mack Sennett chases...
...sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment of Union gold. Bringing the Civil War era to life in Mack Sennett style calls for a tricky blend of taste and ingenuity that few have tried since Buster Keaton's The General, a silent classic of 1926. In Rear, a whole platoon of actors work up a sweat doing the funny business that one real comedian might have tripped through with ease...
...chase." Maybe. But the great screen comedians-Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon Fields-lightened their essays on human folly with the inspired lunacy that makes art. Kramer offers the harshly realistic image of greed itself, and simply tops it off with wisecracks. His cast cannot match the physical style of Mack Sennett, and Mad World's substitute for wit is the flaccid humor of insult. In dozens of roadside hassles, Ethel Merman as Berle's nerve-shattering mother-in-law begins almost every sentence with "Shuddup, you big stupid idiot...
Died. Louise Fazenda Wallis, 66, gawky Hoosier screen comedienne of the silent days-and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis-who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300 Hollywood films in roles from Indian squaw to lady blacksmith without ever losing her gift of grimace; of a stroke; in Hollywood...