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...been my throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail, certain inspirations concerning the secrets of life that, without any vain boasting, I do not think have been expressed very often in this world...
Sennett herself proved to be an almost infallible barometer of public taste. Biographer Fowler denies his sense of humor but says ''perhaps he had the greatest sense of the ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin...
Loud was the hoary howl from independent distributors that the majors were "attempting to destroy our very existence." On one point, however, the industry was in perfect accord last week: Federal regulation was a colossal fizzle. The overwhelming majority of the industry was ready to cooperate with Administrator Ickes in the suppressing of the festering hot oil racket. Yet after a year under the code and despite constant thunder from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Treasury, hot oil flowed freer than ever. The sole landmark in the oil badlands was the fact that...
...Court at White Plains stormed Neighbor George F. Murphy, textile manufacturer, to charge that the Hitchcocks, in- stead of reducing their dogs, had permitted them to multiply. Retorted Breeder Hitchcock: "Dogs will be dogs." Neighbor Murphy cited noises and odors, described a chart kept by his butler of every howl, yelp and bark between June 25 and July 18. All that time, while Mr. Murphy was serving his own cocktails, answering his own doorbell, his butler was listening day and night, in the pantry. Excerpt from the butler's record of what the Hitchcock dogs were doing: June...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...