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Leonidas Owen, Picture-Play Weekly, New York, October 2, 1915.

MACK SENNETT

Managing Director of Keystone Comedies

(...) Moving Picture World, July 10, 1915

„Don‘t know a thing about myself that‘s human“

Editorial content „Mack Sennett As Publicity Man

      By Leonidas Owen

      INTERVIEWS always are productive of one or two

impressions. You either get the impression that

the interviewed one is a ,horn tooter‘ or a ,soft pedaler.‘

      My impression of Mack Sennett, creator of

Keystone comedies, one of the founders of the new Triangle

Film Company, and the man who has made more

people laugh by proxy than any other living individual, is that

he is a ,soft pedaler.‘“ (...)   

      „...and, lastly but not least, because he discovered,

tutored, and set upon the pedestal of fame the

irresistible Charlie Chaplin.“ (...)    

      „,I want something about how you developed such stars

as Chaplin and Sterling.‘ Three minutes of profound

silence, during which he raked the ceiling for inspiration and

drew a nondescrict picture on the pad of paper. The

interviewer finally broke the silence by coughing.

      Sennett: ,Do you think it‘s going to rain to-morrow?‘

      ,I don‘t know – I want you to tell me something

about yourself, something with a little touch of human interest.

Do you ever –‘

      Sennett:  ,Don‘t know a thing about myself

that‘s human.‘“ (...)

      

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