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Died. Chester Conklin, 85, silent-screen zany known to a generation of filmgoers as the Keystone Kop with the walrus mustache; of emphysema; in Hollywood. He went to work for Mack Sennett in 1913 and was soon thriving on pratfalls and pies in the face. While at the top, he earned $3,500 a week appearing in scores of films, including Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Pullman Bride and Modern Times. "Moviemaking was great fun then," recalled Conklin. "A picture consisted of a lot of chases and a plot that was tacked on when we finished shooting...
...budget show and will probably close within the month. Another Three Men on a Horse is a thirties comedy revived to generally favorable reviews and miserable box-office. Jimmy, the lone musical. cost $900.000, opened to unanimous pans and will fold any minute at a total financial loss. Arthur Kop it's Indians, the most exciting and well received play of the season, has failed to arouse the kind of business necessary to establish it as a long-run hit. The other two productions are Angela and Butterflies Are Free , another commercial formula comedy and the only likely financial success...
Married. Chester Conklin, 78, known to oldtime moviegoers as the walrus-mustachioed Keystone Kop; and June Gunther, 65, sometime movie actress; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
Fortunately, there comes now and then a breath of fresh air, most of it from Joyce Grenfell's direction. Comedienne Grenfell, who plays a sort of female Keystone Kop, brings to her part the appearance of a female Fernandel. Horse-faced and giraffe-bodied, long in the tooth and weak in the head, she seems to have been endowed by her creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips...
...meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...