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This week the Fenway is offering "Steel Preferred" with a cast ranging all the way from Hobart Bosworth to Ben Turpin. Just how the latter leaked into the picture is still more or less of a mystery. Mayhap he went to sleep on the set and woke to find himself in the film. Another point which has never seamed quite plain to us is just why so many people think that Turpin is screamingly funny because the poor man has trouble with the focus of his eyes. It has always seemed to us that he managed to entertain in spite...
Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...
...second of the Union's series of sport motion-pictures will be shown on the screen in the Living Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Besides the tennis reel which will be of the slow-motion type, a Mack Sennett comedy, entitled "The Wild Goose Chase", featuring Ben Turpin, will be shown...
...Dick Turpin. Tom Mix displays his values in the present film with the aid of silk breeches, boots and a feathered hat He plays the famed bandit who robbed to help the poor. Beside robbing, he fights barehanded with the Bristol Bully, makes love, sticks up a bishop. A sense of comedy assists materially. Many critics noted that Tom Mix is acquiring agility, more resilient than that of Douglas Fairbanks...