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Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...
...with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital...
...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, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally...
...best that can be said about "What. No Beer," the companion-feature, is that it is fine beer propaganda, now a rather useless strip of celluloid. The story, however, is more than worthy of the Keaton-Duraute combination, which seems to have lost, such of its original pop. In addition, Phyllis Barry is undoubtedly the most excellent siren of the season...
Marriage Revealed-Buster Keaton, 36, film, funnyman; and one May Scribbens; as of Jan. 8 in Ensenada, Mexico, seven months before Keaton's divorce from Natalie Talmadge will become final. Said Keaton: "The marriage is okay in Mexico." Said the Ensenada judge: "I know Mr. Keaton but I have never married him to anybody...