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pyMW!w ''iwyjs'wjr'p F5i? 4 MACK MOVES PLAYERS JUST LIKE CHECKERS By Gertrude M. Price. Mack Sennett is. the director, scen ario plotter and frequently leading actor of the Keystone Company, with headquarters at Edendale, California. He defines comedy as the 10, ?0, 30 type of melodrama "burlesqued a bit." He handles his players like the checkers on a board. He builds his plots around current happenings and works them out in The Comedy "Movie" Man. the street car or a& he walks down street He never writes a line,, for when the picture is once in his 'head he has it. Such a man is Mack, whom every moving picture comedy-lover knows and likes well. Contrary to all supposition, the director of the Keystone comedies lives at the Van Nuys Hotel, one of the most dignified, stately places in, the city. On the job, Mack is rough and ready, brusque, business-like -and everlasting at it. After hours he is the liesurely gen tleman, attired in immaculate apparel and apparently with nothing on his mind. f "There's just a hair's breadth be tween melodrama and comedy," he told me. "You can make the latter out of the former by exaggerating it a bit. i "It's much more difficult to make people laugh than to make them cry, I find. "I work my actors as a man moves checkers on the board. I know the plot. The chances are they don't. Maybe they don't know what they are expected to do mextr even. Of course, it's up to me to keep all the strings untangled and to pull them, each at the right time." Mack Sennett is producing sev eral comedies a month and it's work. If you don't believe it, try to get his attention for three minutes when he's "on the job." o o TEACHER'S MINIMUM WAGE BILL PASSES ILLINOIS SENATE Springfield, III., May 14. The Sen ate passed Senator Magill's minimum wage for teachers' bill. It provides that no school district shall pay its teacher less than $300 for any school year. Magill claimed that over 3,000 teachers in the public schools of the state are getting Jess than $300. Senator Juul, a member of the Senate white slave investigating committee, wanted the bill sent back for an amendment that w.ould raise the pay of all women workers. Senator Hurburgh's bill, prohibit ing the publication in newspapers of advertisements of quack doctors, was also passed, i fciyvarrJif ffe ' UjJ. r httljmi 1. i' vwtr"! -'v. -JmtSi-f . -W-e. HBBHHBHIBIHHH