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Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah...
...Santschi. Shrewd Sam Goldwyn did it again in 1923 with Milton Sills and Noah Beery, and Paramount repeated in 1930 with leathery Gary Cooper and William Boyd...
...Version I (Farnum v. Santschi) that Hollywood and oldtime moviegoers like to recall. It set the pattern for future film brawls, became a pressagent's superlative for the ultimate in cinema scraps. It started small, but, according to Actor Farnum (still hale and hearty enough to undertake a small role in Version IV), it grew after Villain Santschi broke his nose on the first swing. Says Farnum...
Died. Tom Santschi, 50, hulking, fighting cinemactor (The Spoilers, The Hell Cat, Three Bad Men); of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Famed was his battle with oldtime Actor William Farnum? in The Spoilers; but their attempt to duplicate it last February in Ten Nights in a Bar Room (TIME, March 9) was a pathetic shambles...
...were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used to put on fistfights in silent pictures that are still famed for their realism. Now both are aging, paunchy men, and their struggle is grotesque, humiliating, feeble. In the end Farnum quits drinking and Little Mary does not die in spite of being hit in the head by a beer schooner when...
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