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Film Daily, New York, May 31, 1933.
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& Keystone studio, entrance, Edendale near Los Angeles,
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„So I went to the Mack Sennett studio“
Editorial content. „,I Remember When...‘
By Edgar Kennedy
as told to
Don Hancock
of The Film Daily Editorial Staff
,I remember when I won the California amateur heavyweight
championship, so long ago that I think it best not to mention
the exact year,‘ said Mr. Kennedy, RKO comedian.
,I had taken the title from Joe Long, millionaire sportsman,
at the Olympic Club, San Francisco, and decided to turn
professional. The club promised me $1,000 for my first fight, so
to secure preliminary experience I went to Sacramento
under an assumed name and signed to meet a gigantic negro
named Bob Mason. Upon entering the ring I could see
on the opposite side a huge brute of a man, fully a head taller
than me. I was scared, but my manager told me to rush
in and sling so many gloves that the negro wouldn‘t be able
to land on me. Well, the bell rang and that was all
I remembered until I woke up in the dressing room. My eyes
were swollen shut, my lips were puffed and i ached
head to foot. ,That‘s enough,‘ I mumbled to my manager,
,I‘m through!‘ ,Through, hell,‘ he replied, ,you got
the decision!‘ And so I had. He had knocked me cold with
the first blow, but I kept right on fighting. A sort of
unconscious here.
,My next hunch was to become a movie actor.
So I went to the Mack Sennett studio and pestered the casting
director until he almost had me arrested. Finally he told
me that I#d never make an actor in a thousand years. That
burned me up. So I told him that if I wasn‘t a good
actor, I was still a good fighter and could lick any fourteen men
in his or any other studio. Mack Sennett overheard
the boastful remark. With a funny grin on his face he told
me to report for work in the morning.
,I was there bright and early. Sennett had ,set the stage‘
for me. It was a prizefight ring and on benches around
it sat fourteen of the ugliest bruisers I had ever seen. They had
been recruited from the labor gang. Everyone in the
studio was there to see the fun. ,There you are, pug,‘ said
Sennett. ,Lick the fourteen of them and you can
work for me!‘
,Well, I don‘t like to appear conceited, but I went to work
for Sennett the next day as a Keystone Cop.“
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