Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banzai Babe!" they cried. "May you live 10,000 years!" For the harassed U. S. Ambassador this was indeed a lucky break. Mr. Ruth is not merely touring Japan. With a troupe of American Leaguers led by Connie Mack he is barnstorming the Far East de luxe. Seventeen games will be played in Japan. It would be naive to suppose that Japanese baseball frenzy for baseball's Babe will sway public opinion, but last week it did ease tension. The Ginza broke out in a rash of Stars & Stripes. As they cheered Mr. Ruth and milled around him for autographs...
...Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx both hit homers, and Earl Averill hit two, polishing off the game 5-to-11. With exquisite sportsmanship, Japanese baseball scribes then wrote that of course all the handshaking Japanese had inflicted on Mr. Ruth must have tired his arm. Said Manager Connie Mack, with feeling: "I wish Judge Landis could see how the great Japanese crowds are handled, how well behaved they are and how efficiently they conduct ball games here...
...Mack Sennett had a big voice, but he found it easier to get a job in a choir than on the stage of the Metropolitan. Once when he was singing in John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles...
...When Mack Sennett became a director his comedies were soon pushing Griffith's pictures for popularity. He started his own company, called it Keystone Comedy Co. Thanks to a totally inefficient Russian cameraman, his first three pictures were not fit to be seen. But when he began to go ahead he went fast. During his first year as an independent producer Sennett made 104 successful comedies. Soon Mack Sennett was a tycoon and had his heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor...
...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. The post-War years 1924-26 were...