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...time. Says she: "Everybody was a part of the movie colony in those days. I heard that the studio was paying $5 a day for extras, so I applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret set up her own personnel bureau and began recruiting fellow students for the sand-lot epics and near-epics...
...Hollywood, every smog used to have its silver lining, but nowadays the lining is not even tinfoil. With TV competition rampant, and enough talent unemployed to fill a dozen De Mille epics. Hollywood is escaping into the past. Aging cine-moguls such as Mack Sennett, King Vidor and Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking...
Snobs & Iodine. Hatlo quit school in Los Angeles at 14, became a printer's devil, and in his spare time was a publicity man for Mack Sennett. He worked his way into cartooning on the sports page of Hearst's San Francisco Bulletin. William R. Hearst himself spotted his drawings of an improbable community Hatlo called "Swineskin Gulch," and ordered Bulletin editors to use more Hatlo cartoons. In 1928 he tried his first "They'll Do It Every Time," was so flooded with letters from readers suggesting ideas that he has drawn it ever since...
...other leading players from the 1948 Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley's singing roommate...
After being lionized as the old darling of the Cannes film festival, veteran (68) Slapstick Producer Mack Sennett returned to Hollywood with a bit of advice for Americans going to France: "Don't be surprised by anything." To show what he meant, Sennett recalled a Maurice Chevalier show in Paris where the chorus girls bounced around naked from the waist up. Said Sennett primly: "I had to clean my glasses three times to make sure...