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...Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia...
...fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner for two of the volunteers, suspended sentences for the rest...
...William E. Fields, Mack Sennett has a comedian who not only is a good actor, but is also funny. His lampooning of the old "mellowdrammer" is shown off to striking advantage by the "Souvenirs" which followed it. On the stage James E. Barton acts the drunk, sings, dances, and paniomimes while the audience adjourns, or wishes it could, to the smoking room. Continuing this, Beatrice Powell gives an impersonation of Schuossle Durante which is too much like him to be pleasant, but her idea of Mae West assisted by the Broadway Beauties is amusing especially when some of the chorines...
Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...
...Mississippi* last week 9,000 disgruntled whites, led by a Negro jazz band, stormed the State Capitol at Jackson to tell Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner what they thought of a 3% retail sales tax as passed by the State House. "We want Mike! We want Mike!" was the mob's raucous shout as it shuffled from the rotunda toward the Governor's office. Was he in? Some said he was-locked in. Others insisted he was at a downtown hotel. Before the crowd finally drifted out of the Capitol, it left pinned on Governor Conner...