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...speech, Miss Swanson, a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, will trace the development of Hollywood, and its changeover to talkies. She will be introduced by William Bird Van Lennep, curator of the theater collection of the college library...
...when revivals, or musicals, or dramas, or comedies held the limelight or hogged the show. In fact, the great triumphs-the things that few who witnessed them would ever forget-were highly special ones, like Judith Anderson's overwhelming performance in Medea or Jerome Robbins' superb Mack Sennett ballet in High Button Shoes...
Voyage Surprise. A French romp in the Mack Sennett manner (TIME, March...
...Mack Sennett, pie-tossing old (64) master of slapstick now enjoying a revival (three studios are said to have considered making a film about his life), mourned that "comedy is becoming a lost art." He recommended a return to first principles: "We kicked hell out of mothers-in-law, but we never touched mothers...
Voyage Surprise (French). Writer Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise') and Director Pierre, his brother, following René Clair, use their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...