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R. S. Travers, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, October 4, 1914.

MAE TINEE

(...) Photo, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Jan. 3, 1915

& Voice of the Fans.

(...) Title, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 1914

& Dear Miss Tinee: Have been reading your page since it was

first started and certainly have no kick coming. I like

especially the answers to readers pertaining to „movie“ performers,

and I also like „In Movie Land.“ I also wish emphatically

to express myself on the „wiseness“ of R. S. TRAVERS, who

sent in the article about the Keystone comedies being

short of comedy. He goes so far as to say the Keystone company

must think of us low-downs, etc. Now, every time I have

gone to a theater where a Keystone was shown the audience

simply roared with laughter; but, on the other hand,

when a light comedy is shown  with little or no slapstick in it

the audience seems much displeased. In the higher

class district the managers cannot get enough Keystones

to supply the people‘s want. These persons are

refined in every sense of the word. Moral: Don‘t knock.

                                                        F. T. Lezin Jr.

(...) Chicago Tribune, Oct. 18, 1914

& Dear Miss Tinee: The pleasant anticipation of an hour

each Sunday reading the paper certainly met

with an abrupt ending today when the writer came to R. S.

Travers‘ letter, the „real honest to goodness“

movie fan, with his resentment of Keystone fun films.

      To think that an American should have such

a small sense of humor that the Keystone brand of comedy

should spoil the show! For example, with reference

to the repulsive „drunken“ acting, would any one but an habitual

grouch be offended at the clever work in „The Face

on the Barroom Floor?“

      A real regular fan does not confine himself to silly

„love and sob“ stuff entirely. From Mr. Travers‘

letter one would thing (think) he entered a picture show with

a face long enough to eat green persimmons out

of the bottom of a churn. Long live the Keystone films, and let

the lovesick sob fans stay at home when they appear

on the program!                                                 H. H. Clark.

(...) Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 1914

„What do they think we are, a lot of vulgarians?“

Editorial content. „Dear Miss Tinee: I am a movie fan, a real

right regular one, who cannot live without at least

two or three shows a week, and I usually enjoy myself unless

there is a Keystone fim on the bill. There is one thing

in life I resent, and that is the attitude of the Keystone company

toward the American sense of humor. What do they

think we are, a lot of vulgarians? Where do they get the slapstick

stuff they garnish with drunkenness and serve up

to us a comedy? If they think that there is anything funny about 

a delicate little scene where a big fat man puts his foot

into the lap of a slender girl or where a doting husband steals

the money out of his wife‘s purse in order to go out

and get pickled they are surely mistaking the bump of viciousness

for the bump of humor. The most objectionable thing

I have ever seen on any screen or on any stage is the Keystone

film called ,Mr. Full and Mr. Fuller,‘ and it is

hardly of lower caliber than the rest of the Keystones.

May your department live long and prosper;

it is certainly great having a place where a fellow can get

a thing or two off his chest.

                                                                           R. S. Travers.“

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